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Such are the accidents , which , sometimes remembered , and perhaps
sometiines forgotten , produce that particular designation of mind , and
propensity for some certain science or employment , : which is commonly called
Genius . The true ...
Such are the accidents , which , sometimes remembered , and perhaps
sometiines forgotten , produce that particular designation of mind , and
propensity for some certain science or employment , : which is commonly called
Genius . The true ...
Page 201
Audiences applauded by instinct ; and poets perhaps often pleased by chance . .
, A writer who obiains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre . Of an
opinion which is no longer doubted , the evidence ceases to be examined . Of an
art ...
Audiences applauded by instinct ; and poets perhaps often pleased by chance . .
, A writer who obiains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre . Of an
opinion which is no longer doubted , the evidence ceases to be examined . Of an
art ...
Page 211
There ' is another comparison , for there is little else in the poem , of which ,
though perhaps it cannot be explained into plain prosaick meaning , the mind
perceives eñouglí to be delighted , and readily forgives its obscurity , for its
magnificence ...
There ' is another comparison , for there is little else in the poem , of which ,
though perhaps it cannot be explained into plain prosaick meaning , the mind
perceives eñouglí to be delighted , and readily forgives its obscurity , for its
magnificence ...
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It is therefore perhaps possible to give a better representation of that great satirist
, even in those parts which Dryden himself has translated , some paasşges
excepted , which will never be excelled . With Juvenal was published Persius ...
It is therefore perhaps possible to give a better representation of that great satirist
, even in those parts which Dryden himself has translated , some paasşges
excepted , which will never be excelled . With Juvenal was published Persius ...
Page 234
Perhaps no nation ever prodüced a writer that enriched his language with such
variety of models . To him we owe the the improvement , perhaps the completion
of our metre , the refinement of our language , and much of the correctness of our
...
Perhaps no nation ever prodüced a writer that enriched his language with such
variety of models . To him we owe the the improvement , perhaps the completion
of our metre , the refinement of our language , and much of the correctness of our
...
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| Title | Lives Volume 1 of The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | A. Miller, 1800 |
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