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... Essay will succeed , and who or what is the author . Its success he admits to be secured by the false opinions then prevalent ; the author he concludes to be " young and raw . " " First ; because he discovers a sufficiency beyond his ...
... Essay will succeed , and who or what is the author . Its success he admits to be secured by the false opinions then prevalent ; the author he concludes to be " young and raw . " " First ; because he discovers a sufficiency beyond his ...
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... Essay on Criticism , which , if he had written nothing else , would have placed him among the first critics and the first poets , as it exhibits every mode of excellence that can embellish or dignify didactic composition - selection of ...
... Essay on Criticism , which , if he had written nothing else , would have placed him among the first critics and the first poets , as it exhibits every mode of excellence that can embellish or dignify didactic composition - selection of ...
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... Essay , disrobed of its ornaments , is left to the powers of its naked excellence , what shall we discover ? That we are , in comparison with our Creator , very weak and ignorant — that we do not uphold the chain of existence and that ...
... Essay , disrobed of its ornaments , is left to the powers of its naked excellence , what shall we discover ? That we are , in comparison with our Creator , very weak and ignorant — that we do not uphold the chain of existence and that ...
Contents
From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards allowed appeared Atrides beauties Bolingbroke censure character Cibber confessed considered contempt COWLEY criticism death declared delighted diction dignity diligence discovered DONNE Dryden Dunciad easily effect elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay Essay on Criticism excellence faults favour fortune friends genius Georgics happy Homer honour human Iliad images imagination Johnson kind knowledge labour language learning letter likewise lines literary live Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel Lycidas mankind ment mind mother nature neglected never numbers o'er observed opinion Ovid panegyric Paradise Lost passion performance perhaps pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise published Queen reader reason remarks reputation resentment Richard Savage satire Savage says seems sentiments Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes stanza subscription sufficient supposed thought tion translation truth verses Virgil virtue write written wrote
Bibliographic information
| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 A Gateway Edition Volume 83 of The World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Gateway Editions, 1955 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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