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... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and dis- order tried to break into the Latin : a poem on the Shel- donian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musae ...
... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and dis- order tried to break into the Latin : a poem on the Shel- donian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musae ...
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In Two Volumes Samuel Johnson. writer of Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions of fancy , and exalted precepts of wisdom . The basis of Paradise Regained is narrow ; a dialogue without action can never please like an ...
In Two Volumes Samuel Johnson. writer of Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions of fancy , and exalted precepts of wisdom . The basis of Paradise Regained is narrow ; a dialogue without action can never please like an ...
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... write them , preserved them from destruction . scribbling beau may imagine a Poet may be induced write , by the very pleasure he finds in writing ; but that seldom , when people are necessitated to it . I have know men row , and use ...
... write them , preserved them from destruction . scribbling beau may imagine a Poet may be induced write , by the very pleasure he finds in writing ; but that seldom , when people are necessitated to it . I have know men row , and use ...
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