The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes * , who had means enough of information , that , whatever ...
... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes * , who had means enough of information , that , whatever ...
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... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he ex- culpates ...
... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he ex- culpates ...
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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 persuaded 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 persuaded many readers to join with him in his ...
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... excellence than that in which Cowley con- demns exuberance of wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That shews more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there ...
... excellence than that in which Cowley con- demns exuberance of wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That shews more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there ...
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... excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spenser , Shakspeare , and Cowley . His manner he had in ...
... excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spenser , Shakspeare , and Cowley . His manner he had in ...
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