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Page 38
It is urged by Dr. Sprat , that the irregularity of numbers is the very thing which makes that kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he should have remembered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well .
It is urged by Dr. Sprat , that the irregularity of numbers is the very thing which makes that kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he should have remembered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well .
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He was a very pleasant discourser , in earnest and in jest , and therefore very grateful to all kind of company , where he was not the less esteemed for being very rich . ' He had been even nursed in parliaments , where he sat when he ...
He was a very pleasant discourser , in earnest and in jest , and therefore very grateful to all kind of company , where he was not the less esteemed for being very rich . ' He had been even nursed in parliaments , where he sat when he ...
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This , however , is a compostion of great excellence in its kind , in which the familiar is very properly diversified with the solemn , and the grave with the humorous ; in which metre has neither weakened the force , nor clouded the ...
This , however , is a compostion of great excellence in its kind , in which the familiar is very properly diversified with the solemn , and the grave with the humorous ; in which metre has neither weakened the force , nor clouded the ...
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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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