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In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much . praise , but little passion , a very just and ample delinea- tion of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to ...
In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much . praise , but little passion , a very just and ample delinea- tion of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to ...
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Known truths , however , may take a different appear- ance , and be conveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate images . This Milton has undertaken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself .
Known truths , however , may take a different appear- ance , and be conveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate images . This Milton has undertaken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself .
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A tendency of the same kind every mind must feel at the perusal of Dryden's pre- faces and Rymer's discourses . With Dryden we are wandering in quest of Truth ; whom we find , if we find her at all , dressed in the graces of elegance ...
A tendency of the same kind every mind must feel at the perusal of Dryden's pre- faces and Rymer's discourses . With Dryden we are wandering in quest of Truth ; whom we find , if we find her at all , dressed in the graces of elegance ...
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| Title | Lives of The English Poets Volume I |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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