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... excellence is truth : he that profeffes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deferved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes * , who had means enough of infor- mation , that ...
... excellence is truth : he that profeffes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deferved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes * , who had means enough of infor- mation , that ...
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... excellence , is na- tural ; it is natural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate dif- play of his own qualifications . The defire of pleafing has in different men produced actions of heroifm , and effufions ...
... excellence , is na- tural ; it is natural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate dif- play of his own qualifications . The defire of pleafing has in different men produced actions of heroifm , and effufions ...
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... excellence . For the rejection of this play , it is difficult now to find the reafon : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing atten- tion and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he exculpates ...
... excellence . For the rejection of this play , it is difficult now to find the reafon : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing atten- tion and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he exculpates ...
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... excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among many good , is one of the most hazardous attempts of criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has per- fuaded many readers to join with him in his ...
... excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among many good , is one of the most hazardous attempts of criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has per- fuaded many readers to join with him in his ...
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... excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of Wit ; Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That fhews more coft than art . Jewels at nofe and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there ...
... excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of Wit ; Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That fhews more coft than art . Jewels at nofe and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there ...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work Samuel Johnson Visualização completa - 1795 |
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