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Page 13
Yet great labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly lost : if they
frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits , they likewise sometimes
struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far - fetched , they were often
worth the ...
Yet great labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly lost : if they
frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits , they likewise sometimes
struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far - fetched , they were often
worth the ...
Page 14
... in the mass of materials which ingenious absurdity has thrown together ,
genuine wit and useful knowledge may be sometimes found buried perhaps in
grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as ,
when ...
... in the mass of materials which ingenious absurdity has thrown together ,
genuine wit and useful knowledge may be sometimes found buried perhaps in
grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as ,
when ...
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DONNE , Their thoughts and expressions were sometimes grossly absurd , and
such as no figures or license can reconcile to the understanding . A Lover neither
Dead nor Alive . Then down I laid my head Down on cold earth ; and for a while ...
DONNE , Their thoughts and expressions were sometimes grossly absurd , and
such as no figures or license can reconcile to the understanding . A Lover neither
Dead nor Alive . Then down I laid my head Down on cold earth ; and for a while ...
Page 22
They were sometimes indelicate and disgusting . Cowley thus apostrophises
beauty : Thou tyrant , which leav'st no man free ! Thou subtle thief , from whom
nought safe can be ! Thou murtherer , which hast kill'd ; and devil , which would'st
...
They were sometimes indelicate and disgusting . Cowley thus apostrophises
beauty : Thou tyrant , which leav'st no man free ! Thou subtle thief , from whom
nought safe can be ! Thou murtherer , which hast kill'd ; and devil , which would'st
...
Page 23
Their expressions sometimes raise horror , when they intend perhaps to be
pathetic : As men in hell are from diseases free , So from all other ills'am I , Free
from their known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They
were ...
Their expressions sometimes raise horror , when they intend perhaps to be
pathetic : As men in hell are from diseases free , So from all other ills'am I , Free
from their known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They
were ...
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Collection of British and American Authors Collection of British authors Volumes 418-419 of Collection of British authors, Tauchnitz edition Volume 418 of Tauchnitz edition The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
| Original from | Barcelona Athenaeum Library |
| Digitized | 22 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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