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Page xiv
'Poetry,' he says, 'is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to
the help of reason.' We do well to keep this definition in our mind while tracing its
gradual embodiment and illustration in the Lives that lie before us. Johnson is ...
'Poetry,' he says, 'is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to
the help of reason.' We do well to keep this definition in our mind while tracing its
gradual embodiment and illustration in the Lives that lie before us. Johnson is ...
Page 32
... of thought naturally produced familiarity of language, and the familiar part of
language continues long the same : the dialogue of comedy, when it is
transcribed from popular manners and real life, is read from age to age with
equal pleasure.
... of thought naturally produced familiarity of language, and the familiar part of
language continues long the same : the dialogue of comedy, when it is
transcribed from popular manners and real life, is read from age to age with
equal pleasure.
Page 143
If inexhaustible wit could give perpetual pleasure, no eye would ever leave half-
read the work of Butler; for what poet has ever brought so many remote images
so happily together? It is scarcely possible to peruse a page without finding some
...
If inexhaustible wit could give perpetual pleasure, no eye would ever leave half-
read the work of Butler; for what poet has ever brought so many remote images
so happily together? It is scarcely possible to peruse a page without finding some
...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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