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Page 115
But their peculiarity is not excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combination of words are new , but they are not pleasing ...
But their peculiarity is not excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combination of words are new , but they are not pleasing ...
Page 308
... elegance which longer growth would have supplied . Poverty , like other rigid powers , is sometimes too hastily accused . If the excellence of Dryden's works was lessened by his indigence , their number was increased ; and I know ...
... elegance which longer growth would have supplied . Poverty , like other rigid powers , is sometimes too hastily accused . If the excellence of Dryden's works was lessened by his indigence , their number was increased ; and I know ...
Page 335
If indeed there is any excellence beyond it , in some other of Dryden's works that excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on Killigrew , it may be pronounced perhaps superior in the whole ; but without any single part , equal ...
If indeed there is any excellence beyond it , in some other of Dryden's works that excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on Killigrew , it may be pronounced perhaps superior in the whole ; but without any single part , equal ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Volume 1 Volumes 770-771 of Everyman's Library Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Samuel Johnson Volume 84 of Worlds classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Frowde, 191? |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Feb 2019 |
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