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... judgment , or more fear to offend than desire to instruct . The tediousness of this poem proceeds not from the uni- formity of the subject , for it is sufficiently diversified , but from the continued tenor of the narration ; in which ...
... judgment , or more fear to offend than desire to instruct . The tediousness of this poem proceeds not from the uni- formity of the subject , for it is sufficiently diversified , but from the continued tenor of the narration ; in which ...
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... judgment as secured him from everything that approached to the ridi- culous or absurd ; but as law operates in civil agency , not to the excitement of virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so judgment in the operations of ...
... judgment as secured him from everything that approached to the ridi- culous or absurd ; but as law operates in civil agency , not to the excitement of virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so judgment in the operations of ...
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... judgment and poetical spirit . Correction seldom effects more than the suppression of faults : a happy line , or a single elegance , may perhaps be added ; but of a large work , the general character must always remain . The original ...
... judgment and poetical spirit . Correction seldom effects more than the suppression of faults : a happy line , or a single elegance , may perhaps be added ; but of a large work , the general character must always remain . The original ...
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... judgment free and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only at the reputation of acute grammarians and commentators ; men who have been copying ...
... judgment free and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only at the reputation of acute grammarians and commentators ; men who have been copying ...
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... judgment . He is not like those dry critics who are morose because they cannot write themselves , but is himself master of a good vein in poetry ; and though he does not often employ it , yet he has sometimes entertained his friends ...
... judgment . He is not like those dry critics who are morose because they cannot write themselves , but is himself master of a good vein in poetry ; and though he does not often employ it , yet he has sometimes entertained his friends ...
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