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Page 153
Samuel Johnson. consists in a disproportion between the style and the sentiments , or between the adventitious sentiments and the fundamental subject . It therefore , like all bodies compounded of heterogeneous parts , contains in it ...
Samuel Johnson. consists in a disproportion between the style and the sentiments , or between the adventitious sentiments and the fundamental subject . It therefore , like all bodies compounded of heterogeneous parts , contains in it ...
Page 338
... sentiment . What he had of humorous or passionate , he seems to have had not from nature , but from other poets ... sentiments either great or bulky , and many images either just or splendid : I am as free as Nature first made man ...
... sentiment . What he had of humorous or passionate , he seems to have had not from nature , but from other poets ... sentiments either great or bulky , and many images either just or splendid : I am as free as Nature first made man ...
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... sentiments in elegant language , than a representation of natural affections , or of any state probable or possible in human life . Nothing here excites or assuages emotion ; here is no magical power of raising phantastick terror or ...
... sentiments in elegant language , than a representation of natural affections , or of any state probable or possible in human life . Nothing here excites or assuages emotion ; here is no magical power of raising phantastick terror or ...
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