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A memory admitting some tilings, and rejecting others, an intellectual digestion
that concocted the pulp of learning, but refused the husks, had the appearance of
an instinctive elegance, of a particular provision made by Nature for literary ...
A memory admitting some tilings, and rejecting others, an intellectual digestion
that concocted the pulp of learning, but refused the husks, had the appearance of
an instinctive elegance, of a particular provision made by Nature for literary ...
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The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to shew their learning was
their whole endea- i 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 ...
The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to shew their learning was
their whole endea- i 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 ...
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... and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their
learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly Vthinks
his improvement dearly bought, and, though \e sometimes admires, is seldom
pleased.
... and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their
learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly Vthinks
his improvement dearly bought, and, though \e sometimes admires, is seldom
pleased.
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As the authors of this race were perhaps more desirous of being admired than
understood, they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not
very much frequented by common readers of poetry. Thus Cowley on Knowledge
: ...
As the authors of this race were perhaps more desirous of being admired than
understood, they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not
very much frequented by common readers of poetry. Thus Cowley on Knowledge
: ...
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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 the year, have
something in ...
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 the year, have
something in ...
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| Título | The works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 6 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson |
| Autores | Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, Arthur Murphy |
| Editor | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
| Procedencia del original | University of Minnesota |
| Digitalizado | 29 Ene 2010 |
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