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... mind . " : Goldsmith , too , though he shared many of Johnson's prejudices , had a hand in the preparation of a book which exhausts the vocabulary in praise of the English writer who " seems to have rivalled and ex- celled all other ...
... mind . " : Goldsmith , too , though he shared many of Johnson's prejudices , had a hand in the preparation of a book which exhausts the vocabulary in praise of the English writer who " seems to have rivalled and ex- celled all other ...
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Raymond Dexter Havens. ably Paradise Lost that such writers had chiefly in mind ; for the modern heresy of exalting the shorter poems at the expense of the longer was scarcely known in an age which , whatever its deficiencies , at least ...
Raymond Dexter Havens. ably Paradise Lost that such writers had chiefly in mind ; for the modern heresy of exalting the shorter poems at the expense of the longer was scarcely known in an age which , whatever its deficiencies , at least ...
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... mind when he mentioned their author as " the best example of an exquisite ear " that he could produce . " If he had written nothing else , " said another , apropos of the octosyllabics , he " has displayed such exten- sive powers of ...
... mind when he mentioned their author as " the best example of an exquisite ear " that he could produce . " If he had written nothing else , " said another , apropos of the octosyllabics , he " has displayed such exten- sive powers of ...
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... Mind and that Variety which pleases the Imagination . . . . But he hath especially an in- disputable Claim to the unanimous Admiration of Mankind , when he descends from those high Flights to the natural Description of 1 Dialogues of ...
... Mind and that Variety which pleases the Imagination . . . . But he hath especially an in- disputable Claim to the unanimous Admiration of Mankind , when he descends from those high Flights to the natural Description of 1 Dialogues of ...
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... mind in its moral and religious sentiments . " 2 Thomas Warton , though unwill- ing to go so far as this , anticipated Tennyson's oft - quoted dictum by asserting , " He who wishes to know whether he has a true taste for Poetry or not ...
... mind in its moral and religious sentiments . " 2 Thomas Warton , though unwill- ing to go so far as this , anticipated Tennyson's oft - quoted dictum by asserting , " He who wishes to know whether he has a true taste for Poetry or not ...
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