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may depend upon his own opinion ; but that , in those parts where fancy predominates , self - love may easily de- ceive . He might have observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been ...
may depend upon his own opinion ; but that , in those parts where fancy predominates , self - love may easily de- ceive . He might have observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been ...
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He who writes much will not easily escape a manner , such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same , he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form ...
He who writes much will not easily escape a manner , such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same , he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form ...
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The fable is drawn from an obscure and barbarous age , to which fictions are most easily and properly adapted ; for when objects are imperfectly seen , they easily take forms from imagination . The scene lies among our ancestors in our ...
The fable is drawn from an obscure and barbarous age , to which fictions are most easily and properly adapted ; for when objects are imperfectly seen , they easily take forms from imagination . The scene lies among our ancestors in our ...
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| Title | Lives of The English Poets Volume I |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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