The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... Poetry , I was persuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an undertaking , as it was then presented to my mind , not very extensive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an ...
... Poetry , I was persuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an undertaking , as it was then presented to my mind , not very extensive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an ...
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... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a ... poet of an airy nothing , " and to quarrel às to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to ...
... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a ... poet of an airy nothing , " and to quarrel às to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to ...
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... poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but con- curring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's Poem ap- peared * , seemed unable to contest the palm ...
... poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but con- curring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's Poem ap- peared * , seemed unable to contest the palm ...
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... poetry réɣvn μuntikn , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imi- tated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted ...
... poetry réɣvn μuntikn , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imi- tated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted ...
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... poetry , compared to travels through different coun- tries : Hast thou not found each woman's breast ( The land where thou hast travelled ) Either by savages possest , Or wild , and uninhabited ? What joy could'st take , or what repose ...
... poetry , compared to travels through different coun- tries : Hast thou not found each woman's breast ( The land where thou hast travelled ) Either by savages possest , Or wild , and uninhabited ? What joy could'st take , or what repose ...
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