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... and ought to please , because it is natural , observes that there is a way of deviating from nature , by bombast ... which soars above nature , and enlarges images beyond their real bulk ; by affectation , which forsakes nature in ...
... and ought to please , because it is natural , observes that there is a way of deviating from nature , by bombast ... which soars above nature , and enlarges images beyond their real bulk ; by affectation , which forsakes nature in ...
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His remarks result from the nature and reason of things , and are formed by a judgement free , and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only at ...
His remarks result from the nature and reason of things , and are formed by a judgement free , and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only at ...
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... without good - nature , and without justice ; of whose name he thought himself obliged to leave no trace in any future edition of his writings , and accordingly blotted it out of that copy of The Wanderer which was in his hands .
... without good - nature , and without justice ; of whose name he thought himself obliged to leave no trace in any future edition of his writings , and accordingly blotted it out of that copy of The Wanderer which was in his hands .
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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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