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... elegance is put out of court as inartistic and barbarous . When Johnson sought a formal definition of poetry , he did not at once hedge himself round with all his own conventions . ' Poetry , ' he said , ' is the art of uniting pleasure ...
... elegance is put out of court as inartistic and barbarous . When Johnson sought a formal definition of poetry , he did not at once hedge himself round with all his own conventions . ' Poetry , ' he said , ' is the art of uniting pleasure ...
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... elegance , of a particular provision made by Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail on ...
... elegance , of a particular provision made by Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail on ...
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... elegance , it would be difficult to conjecture , were not the power of preju- dice every day observed . The authority of Jonson , Sandys , and Holiday , had fixed the judgement of the nation ; and it was not easily believed that a ...
... elegance , it would be difficult to conjecture , were not the power of preju- dice every day observed . The authority of Jonson , Sandys , and Holiday , had fixed the judgement of the nation ; and it was not easily believed that a ...
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Lives of the English Poets: The Prior Congreve, Blackmore and Pope Samuel Johnson No preview available - 2003 |
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