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Page 115
Through these two poems the images are properly selected, and nicely
distinguished ; but the colours of the diction seem not sufficiently discriminated. I
know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart. No mirth can, indeed,
...
Through these two poems the images are properly selected, and nicely
distinguished ; but the colours of the diction seem not sufficiently discriminated. I
know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart. No mirth can, indeed,
...
Page 147
But such numbers and such diction can gain regard only when they are used by
a writer whose vigour of fancy and copiousness of knowledge entitle him to
contempt of ornaments, and who, in confidence of the novelty and justness of his
...
But such numbers and such diction can gain regard only when they are used by
a writer whose vigour of fancy and copiousness of knowledge entitle him to
contempt of ornaments, and who, in confidence of the novelty and justness of his
...
Page 428
His poetry is first to be considered; of which it must be confessed that it has not
often those felicities of diction which give lustre to sentiments, or that vigour of
sentiment that animates diction: there is little of ardour, vehemence, or transport;
...
His poetry is first to be considered; of which it must be confessed that it has not
often those felicities of diction which give lustre to sentiments, or that vigour of
sentiment that animates diction: there is little of ardour, vehemence, or transport;
...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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