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Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they are not obvious, but
neither are they just; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them,
wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found.
But Wit ...
Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they are not obvious, but
neither are they just; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them,
wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found.
But Wit ...
Page 67
He thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the office of speaking,
bought and begun with servitude and ... I know not any of the Articles which seem
to thwart his opinions: but the thoughts of obedience, whether canonical or civil, ...
He thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the office of speaking,
bought and begun with servitude and ... I know not any of the Articles which seem
to thwart his opinions: but the thoughts of obedience, whether canonical or civil, ...
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added something to our elegance of diction, and something to our propriety of
thought ; and to him may be applied what Tasso said, with equal spirit and justice
of himself and Guarini, when, having perused the Pastor Fido, he cried out, 'If he
...
added something to our elegance of diction, and something to our propriety of
thought ; and to him may be applied what Tasso said, with equal spirit and justice
of himself and Guarini, when, having perused the Pastor Fido, he cried out, 'If he
...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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