The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... learning , but refused the husks , had the appearance of an instinctive elegance , of a particular provision made by Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
... learning , but refused the husks , had the appearance of an instinctive elegance , of a particular provision made by Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
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... learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endea - O vour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better ...
... learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endea - O vour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better ...
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... learning instructs , and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily 20 COWLEY ...
... learning instructs , and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily 20 COWLEY ...
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... learning not very much frequented by common readers of poe- try . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : " concert from recenes of learning The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum❜d ...
... learning not very much frequented by common readers of poe- try . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : " concert from recenes of learning The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum❜d ...
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Samuel Johnson. But you , of learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of ...
Samuel Johnson. But you , of learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of ...
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