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... natural defire of man to propagate a wonder . It is furely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying . a commodious incident ... Nature for literary politenefs . But in COWL E Y. 3 OF.
... natural defire of man to propagate a wonder . It is furely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying . a commodious incident ... Nature for literary politenefs . But in COWL E Y. 3 OF.
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Samuel Johnson. vifion made by Nature for literary politenefs . But in the author's own honeft relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he fays , fuch " an 66 enemy to all conftraint , that his master " never could prevail on him to ...
Samuel Johnson. vifion made by Nature for literary politenefs . But in the author's own honeft relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he fays , fuch " an 66 enemy to all conftraint , that his master " never could prevail on him to ...
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... 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 of wit ; but it feems as ...
... 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 of wit ; but it feems as ...
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... nature to the choice of man , has its changes . and fashions , and at different times takes dif- ferent forms . About the beginning of the feventeenth century appeared a race of writers that be termed the metaphysical poets ; of whom ...
... nature to the choice of man , has its changes . and fashions , and at different times takes dif- ferent forms . About the beginning of the feventeenth century appeared a race of writers that be termed the metaphysical poets ; of whom ...
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... nature for life ; neither painted the forms of matter ; nor represented the operations of intellect . Thofe however who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confeffes of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall ...
... nature for life ; neither painted the forms of matter ; nor represented the operations of intellect . Thofe however who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confeffes of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall ...
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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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