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To the compleatness or integrity of the design nothing can be objected ; it has distinctly and clearly what Aris- totle requires , a beginning , a middle , and an end . There is perhaps no poem , of the same length , from which so ...
To the compleatness or integrity of the design nothing can be objected ; it has distinctly and clearly what Aris- totle requires , a beginning , a middle , and an end . There is perhaps no poem , of the same length , from which so ...
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If it be considered as a poem political and controversial , it will be found to comprise all the excellences of which the subject is sus- ceptible ; acrimony of censure , elegance of praise , artful delineation of characters , variety ...
If it be considered as a poem political and controversial , it will be found to comprise all the excellences of which the subject is sus- ceptible ; acrimony of censure , elegance of praise , artful delineation of characters , variety ...
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His next paper of verses contained a character of the principal English poets , inscribed to Henry Sacheverell , who was then , if not a poet , a writer of verses ; as is shewn by his version of a small part of Virgil's Georgicks ...
His next paper of verses contained a character of the principal English poets , inscribed to Henry Sacheverell , who was then , if not a poet , a writer of verses ; as is shewn by his version of a small part of Virgil's Georgicks ...
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| Title | Lives of The English Poets Volume I |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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