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Page 115
... diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart . No mirth can , indeed , be found in his melancholy ; but I am afraid that I always meet some melancholy in his mirth . They ...
... diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart . No mirth can , indeed , be found in his melancholy ; but I am afraid that I always meet some melancholy in his mirth . They ...
Page 147
... diction can gain re- gard only when they are used by a writer whose vigour of fancy and copiousness of knowledge entitle him to con- tempt of ornaments , and who , in confidence of the novelty and justness of his conceptions , can ...
... diction can gain re- gard only when they are used by a writer whose vigour of fancy and copiousness of knowledge entitle him to con- tempt of ornaments , and who , in confidence of the novelty and justness of his conceptions , can ...
Page 428
... diction which give lustre to sentiments , or that vigour of senti- ment that animates diction : there is little of ardour , vehemence , or transport ; there is very rarely the awful- ness of grandeur , and not very often the splendour ...
... diction which give lustre to sentiments , or that vigour of senti- ment that animates diction : there is little of ardour , vehemence , or transport ; there is very rarely the awful- ness of grandeur , and not very often the splendour ...
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| Title | Lives of The English Poets Volume I |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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