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... JOHNSON ( Sept. 1831 ) • PAGE • 1 62 • • 112 . . 215 • 267 292 • • ( Dec. 333 · . 350 366 LORD NUGENT'S MEMORIALS OF HAMPDEN ( Dec. 1831 ) 421 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES ( April 1832 ) WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN ( Jan. 1833 ) HORACE ...
... JOHNSON ( Sept. 1831 ) • PAGE • 1 62 • • 112 . . 215 • 267 292 • • ( Dec. 333 · . 350 366 LORD NUGENT'S MEMORIALS OF HAMPDEN ( Dec. 1831 ) 421 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES ( April 1832 ) WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN ( Jan. 1833 ) HORACE ...
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... Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of much clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , understood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advantage from the civilisation which ...
... Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of much clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , understood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advantage from the civilisation which ...
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... Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles as an habitual ...
... Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles as an habitual ...
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... break the charm which it was his object to throw over their imaginations . This is the real explanation of the indistinctness and inconsistency with which he has often been reproached . Dr. Johnson acknowledges that it was MILTON . 23.
... break the charm which it was his object to throw over their imaginations . This is the real explanation of the indistinctness and inconsistency with which he has often been reproached . Dr. Johnson acknowledges that it was MILTON . 23.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. often been reproached . Dr. Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms . " But , " says he , " the poet should have secured the ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. often been reproached . Dr. Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms . " But , " says he , " the poet should have secured the ...
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