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... criticism is eager to fall upon ; but , after all , a footnote will set it right at once . And Johnson himself never valued his work on the purely formal estimate ; he was never , as Boswell records , in any great hurry to alter a date ...
... criticism is eager to fall upon ; but , after all , a footnote will set it right at once . And Johnson himself never valued his work on the purely formal estimate ; he was never , as Boswell records , in any great hurry to alter a date ...
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... criticism has the majesty of a queen ; Rymer's has the ferocity of a tyrant . As he had studied with great diligence the art of poetry , and enlarged or rectified his notions , by experience per- petually increasing , he had his mind ...
... criticism has the majesty of a queen ; Rymer's has the ferocity of a tyrant . As he had studied with great diligence the art of poetry , and enlarged or rectified his notions , by experience per- petually increasing , he had his mind ...
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... criticism . Part of his reputa- tion may be probably ascribed to the advancement of his fortune : when , as Swift observes , he became a states- man , and saw poets waiting at his levee , it was no wonder that praise was accumulated ...
... criticism . Part of his reputa- tion may be probably ascribed to the advancement of his fortune : when , as Swift observes , he became a states- man , and saw poets waiting at his levee , it was no wonder that praise was accumulated ...
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