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This consideration cannot but abate in some measure the reader's esteem for the
work and the author. To love excellence, is natural; it is natural likewise for the
lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications.
This consideration cannot but abate in some measure the reader's esteem for the
work and the author. To love excellence, is natural; it is natural likewise for the
lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications.
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\Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they are not obvious, but
neither are they just; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them,
wonders more frequently by what peryerseness of industry they were ever found.
But wit ...
\Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they are not obvious, but
neither are they just; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them,
wonders more frequently by what peryerseness of industry they were ever found.
But wit ...
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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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On reading the following lines, the reader may perhaps cry out — Confusion
worse confounded. Here lies a she sun, and a he moon here, She gives the best
light to his sphere, Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing
...
On reading the following lines, the reader may perhaps cry out — Confusion
worse confounded. Here lies a she sun, and a he moon here, She gives the best
light to his sphere, Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing
...
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I know not whether Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to join with him
in his preference of the two favourite odes, which he estimates in his raptures at
the value of a kingdom. I will, however, venture to recommend Cowley's first ...
I know not whether Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to join with him
in his preference of the two favourite odes, which he estimates in his raptures at
the value of a kingdom. I will, however, venture to recommend Cowley's first ...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 10 Samuel Johnson,Alexander Chalmers,Arthur Murphy Vista completa - 1823 |
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Absalom and Achitophel admired afterwards appears beauties better blank verse censure character Charles Charles Dryden Clarendon composition Comus confessed considered Cowley criticism death delight diction dramatick Dryden Duke Earl elegance English English poetry epick Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius Heaven heroick honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden kind King knowledge known labour Lady language Latin learning lines Lord Lord Conway Lord Roscommon Milton mind nature never nihil numbers opinion Paradise Lost Parliament passions performance perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sophocles Sprat style supposed thee thing thou thought tion tragedy translation truth Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue Waller words write written wrote
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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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