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But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , who had means enough of ...
But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , who had means enough of ...
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But their peculiarity is not excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combination of words are new , but they are not pleasing ...
But their peculiarity is not excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combination of words are new , but they are not pleasing ...
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If indeed there is any excellence beyond it , in some other of Dryden's works that excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on Killigrew , it may be pronounced perhaps superior in the whole ; but without any single part , equal ...
If indeed there is any excellence beyond it , in some other of Dryden's works that excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on Killigrew , it may be pronounced perhaps superior in the whole ; but without any single part , equal ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volume 83 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2011 |
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