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... tion and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by obferving how unlikely it is that , having followed the royal family through all their diftreffes , " he should chufe " the time of ...
... tion and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by obferving how unlikely it is that , having followed the royal family through all their diftreffes , " he should chufe " the time of ...
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... tion . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of great- nefs ; for great things cannot have escaped former obfervation . Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments ; and ...
... tion . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of great- nefs ; for great things cannot have escaped former obfervation . Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments ; and ...
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... tion " the plays round the head , but reaches " not the heart . " Her beauty and abfence , her kindness and cruelty , her disdain and in- conftancy , produce no correspondence of emo- tion . His poetical account of the virtues of plants ...
... tion " the plays round the head , but reaches " not the heart . " Her beauty and abfence , her kindness and cruelty , her disdain and in- conftancy , produce no correspondence of emo- tion . His poetical account of the virtues of plants ...
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... different proportions of concep- tion ; but Cowley could not let us go till he had related where Gabriel got first his fkin , and then his mantle , then his lace , and then G 3 his 1 his fcarfe , and related it in the terms of COWLEY . 85.
... different proportions of concep- tion ; but Cowley could not let us go till he had related where Gabriel got first his fkin , and then his mantle , then his lace , and then G 3 his 1 his fcarfe , and related it in the terms of COWLEY . 85.
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... tion ; of which it will be beft to give his own . account fubjoined to this line : Nor can the glory contain itself in th ' endless space . " I am forry that it is neceffary to admo " nifh the most part of readers , that it is not by ...
... tion ; of which it will be beft to give his own . account fubjoined to this line : Nor can the glory contain itself in th ' endless space . " I am forry that it is neceffary to admo " nifh the most part of readers , that it is not by ...
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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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