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Samuel Johnson. The sentiments , as expressive of manners , or appropriated to characters , are for the greater part unexceptionally just . Splendid ... SENTIMENTS AND DICTION 105 existence , and furnish sentiment 104 1608-1674 MILTON.
Samuel Johnson. The sentiments , as expressive of manners , or appropriated to characters , are for the greater part unexceptionally just . Splendid ... SENTIMENTS AND DICTION 105 existence , and furnish sentiment 104 1608-1674 MILTON.
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Samuel Johnson. 1608-1674 SENTIMENTS AND DICTION 105 existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or accompany the choirs of heaven . But he could not be always in other worlds ; he ...
Samuel Johnson. 1608-1674 SENTIMENTS AND DICTION 105 existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or accompany the choirs of heaven . But he could not be always in other worlds ; he ...
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... sentiments , or impressing new appearances of things : sentences were readier at his call than images ; he could ... sentiment . What he had of humorous or passionate , he seems to have had not from nature , but from other poets ; if not ...
... sentiments , or impressing new appearances of things : sentences were readier at his call than images ; he could ... sentiment . What he had of humorous or passionate , he seems to have had not from nature , but from other poets ; if not ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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