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To do this would not have been difficult to any man but Addison , who was so overwhelmed with the greatness of the event and so distracted by choice of expression that the lords , who could not wait for the niceties of criticism ...
To do this would not have been difficult to any man but Addison , who was so overwhelmed with the greatness of the event and so distracted by choice of expression that the lords , who could not wait for the niceties of criticism ...
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6 high is in danger lest the next age should by the vengeance of criticism sink it in the same proportion . A great writer has lately styled him an indifferent poet , and a worse critick ? ' His poetry is first to be considered ...
6 high is in danger lest the next age should by the vengeance of criticism sink it in the same proportion . A great writer has lately styled him an indifferent poet , and a worse critick ? ' His poetry is first to be considered ...
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criticism is no longer softened by his bounties or awed by his splendour " , and , being able to take a more steady view , discovers him to be a writer that sometimes glimmers , but rarely shines , feebly laborious , and at best but ...
criticism is no longer softened by his bounties or awed by his splendour " , and , being able to take a more steady view , discovers him to be a writer that sometimes glimmers , but rarely shines , feebly laborious , and at best but ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets: Smith-Savage Volume 2 of Lives of the English Poets, George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Octagon Books, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 8 Mar 2008 |
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