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Page xii
... criticism is eager to fall upon ; but , after all , a footnote will set it right at once . And Johnson himself never valued his work on the purely formal estimate ; he was never , as Boswell records , in any great hurry to alter a date ...
... criticism is eager to fall upon ; but , after all , a footnote will set it right at once . And Johnson himself never valued his work on the purely formal estimate ; he was never , as Boswell records , in any great hurry to alter a date ...
Page 13
... criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of ...
... criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of ...
Page 464
... criticism over his Prefaces with very little parsi- mony ; but , though he sometimes condescended to be somewhat familiar , his manner was in general too scholastick for those who had yet their rudiments to learn , and found it not easy ...
... criticism over his Prefaces with very little parsi- mony ; but , though he sometimes condescended to be somewhat familiar , his manner was in general too scholastick for those who had yet their rudiments to learn , and found it not easy ...
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