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Page 112
What beauty there is, we must therefore seek in the sentiments and images. It is
not to be considered as the effusion of real passion; for passion runs not after
remote allusions and obscure opinions. Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle
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What beauty there is, we must therefore seek in the sentiments and images. It is
not to be considered as the effusion of real passion; for passion runs not after
remote allusions and obscure opinions. Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle
...
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 326
This endeavour after the grand and the new, produced many sentiments either
great or bulky, and many images either just or splendid : I am as free as Nature
first made man, \ Ere the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the
...
This endeavour after the grand and the new, produced many sentiments either
great or bulky, and many images either just or splendid : I am as free as Nature
first made man, \ Ere the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the
...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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