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Langbaine's charges of plagiarism should be allowed , shews such facility of composition , such readiness of language , and such copiousness of sentiment , as , since the name of Lopez de Vega , perhaps no other author has possessed .
Langbaine's charges of plagiarism should be allowed , shews such facility of composition , such readiness of language , and such copiousness of sentiment , as , since the name of Lopez de Vega , perhaps no other author has possessed .
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His heroick stanzas have beauties and defects ; the thoughts are vigorous , and though not always proper , shew a mind replete with ideas ; the numbers are smooth , and the diction , if not altogether correct , is elegant and easy .
His heroick stanzas have beauties and defects ; the thoughts are vigorous , and though not always proper , shew a mind replete with ideas ; the numbers are smooth , and the diction , if not altogether correct , is elegant and easy .
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opera called Calypso and Telemachus , intended to shew that the English language might be very happily adapted to musick . This was impudently opposed by those who were employed in the Italian opera ; and , what cannot be told without ...
opera called Calypso and Telemachus , intended to shew that the English language might be very happily adapted to musick . This was impudently opposed by those who were employed in the Italian opera ; and , what cannot be told without ...
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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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