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Page 123
... illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and
aggravating the dreadful : he therefore chose a subject on which too much could
not be said, on which he might tire his fancy without the censure of extravagance.
... illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and
aggravating the dreadful : he therefore chose a subject on which too much could
not be said, on which he might tire his fancy without the censure of extravagance.
Page 281
He degrades his own dignity by shewing that he was affected by their censures,
and gives lasting importance to names, ... to be included; they are, like other
poems, effusions of genius, produced as much to obtain praise as to obviate
censure.
He degrades his own dignity by shewing that he was affected by their censures,
and gives lasting importance to names, ... to be included; they are, like other
poems, effusions of genius, produced as much to obtain praise as to obviate
censure.
Page 282
Thus stands the passage in the last edition; but in the original there was an
abatement of the censure, beginning thus: But what remains will be so pure, 'twill
bear Th' examination of the most severe. Blackmore, finding the censure
resented, ...
Thus stands the passage in the last edition; but in the original there was an
abatement of the censure, beginning thus: But what remains will be so pure, 'twill
bear Th' examination of the most severe. Blackmore, finding the censure
resented, ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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