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He began with no happy auguries ; for his performance was so much disapproved , that he was compelled to recall it ... or tracing the meanders of his mind through the whole series of his dramatick performances ; it will be fit however ...
He began with no happy auguries ; for his performance was so much disapproved , that he was compelled to recall it ... or tracing the meanders of his mind through the whole series of his dramatick performances ; it will be fit however ...
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... where delight is mingled with instruction , and where the author proves his right of judgement , by his power of performance . ... was perhaps never more clearly exemplified than in the performances of Rymer and Dryden .
... where delight is mingled with instruction , and where the author proves his right of judgement , by his power of performance . ... was perhaps never more clearly exemplified than in the performances of Rymer and Dryden .
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Many of our own writers tried their powers upo this year of victory , yet Addison's is confessedly the best performance ; his poem is the work of a man not blinded by the dust of learning : his images are not borrowed merely from books ...
Many of our own writers tried their powers upo this year of victory , yet Addison's is confessedly the best performance ; his poem is the work of a man not blinded by the dust of learning : his images are not borrowed merely from books ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volume 83 of Oxford world's classics Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1906 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 493 pages |
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