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Page 164
It seems reasonable to expect that a great dramatick poet should without difficulty become a great actor ; that he who can feel , could express ; that he who can excite passion , should exhibit with great readiness its external modes ...
It seems reasonable to expect that a great dramatick poet should without difficulty become a great actor ; that he who can feel , could express ; that he who can excite passion , should exhibit with great readiness its external modes ...
Page 243
Sure the poet writ these two lines aboard some smack in a storm , and , being sea - sick , spewed up a good lump of clotted nonsense at once . ' Here is perhaps a sufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never ...
Sure the poet writ these two lines aboard some smack in a storm , and , being sea - sick , spewed up a good lump of clotted nonsense at once . ' Here is perhaps a sufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never ...
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The virtues of Tamerlane seem to have been arbitrarily assigned him by his poet , for I know not that history gives any other qualities than those which make a con- queror . The fashion however of the time was , to accumu- late upon ...
The virtues of Tamerlane seem to have been arbitrarily assigned him by his poet , for I know not that history gives any other qualities than those which make a con- queror . The fashion however of the time was , to accumu- late upon ...
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| Title | Lives of The English Poets Volume I |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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