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They have all the same beauties and faults, and nearly in the same proportion.
They are written with exuberance of wit, and with copiousness of learning; and it
is truly asserted by Sprat, that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in
upon ...
They have all the same beauties and faults, and nearly in the same proportion.
They are written with exuberance of wit, and with copiousness of learning; and it
is truly asserted by Sprat, that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in
upon ...
Page 218
He apparently professed himself a poet, and added his name to those of the
other wits in the version of Juvenal ; but he is a very licentious translator, and
does not recompense his neglect of the author by beauties of his own. In his
original ...
He apparently professed himself a poet, and added his name to those of the
other wits in the version of Juvenal ; but he is a very licentious translator, and
does not recompense his neglect of the author by beauties of his own. In his
original ...
Page 379
... other attractions than those of his poetry, of which a short time has withered the
beauties. It would now be esteemed no honour, by a contributor to the monthly
bundles of verses, to be told, that, in strains either familiar or solemn, he sings
like ...
... other attractions than those of his poetry, of which a short time has withered the
beauties. It would now be esteemed no honour, by a contributor to the monthly
bundles of verses, to be told, that, in strains either familiar or solemn, he sings
like ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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