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He began with no happy auguries; for his performance was so much disapproved
, that he was compelled to recall it, and ... meanders of his mind through the
whole series of his dramatick performances ; it will be fit however to enumerate
them, ...
He began with no happy auguries; for his performance was so much disapproved
, that he was compelled to recall it, and ... meanders of his mind through the
whole series of his dramatick performances ; it will be fit however to enumerate
them, ...
Page 289
... delight is mingled with instruction, and where the author proves his right of
judgement, by his power of performance. ... critical knowledge may be conveyed,
was perhaps never more clearly exemplified than in the performances of Rymer ...
... delight is mingled with instruction, and where the author proves his right of
judgement, by his power of performance. ... critical knowledge may be conveyed,
was perhaps never more clearly exemplified than in the performances of Rymer ...
Page 430
Many of our own writers tried their powers upon this year of victory, yet Addison's
is confessedly the best performance ; his poem is the work of a man not blinded
by the dust of learning: his images are not borrowed merely from books.
Many of our own writers tried their powers upon this year of victory, yet Addison's
is confessedly the best performance ; his poem is the work of a man not blinded
by the dust of learning: his images are not borrowed merely from books.
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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