Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets. By Samuel Johnson. Volume the First [- Tenth], Volume 31779 - 349 pages |
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... muft excite , will require a difplay more ample than can now be given . His contemporaries , how- ever they reverenced his genius , left his life unwritten ; and nothing therefore can be known beyond what cafual mention and uncertain ...
... muft excite , will require a difplay more ample than can now be given . His contemporaries , how- ever they reverenced his genius , left his life unwritten ; and nothing therefore can be known beyond what cafual mention and uncertain ...
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... muft for ever debar it from ele- gance , it would be difficult to con- jecture , were not the power of prejudice every day obferved . The authority of Jonfon , Sandys , and Haliday , had fixed the judgement of the nation ; and it was ...
... muft for ever debar it from ele- gance , it would be difficult to con- jecture , were not the power of prejudice every day obferved . The authority of Jonfon , Sandys , and Haliday , had fixed the judgement of the nation ; and it was ...
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... muft in part be ignorant . This is the most reasonable scheme of celestial interpofition that ever was- formed . The furprizes and terrors of enchantments , which have fucceeded to the intrigues and oppofitions of pagan . deities ...
... muft in part be ignorant . This is the most reasonable scheme of celestial interpofition that ever was- formed . The furprizes and terrors of enchantments , which have fucceeded to the intrigues and oppofitions of pagan . deities ...
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... muft fight in the defence of indubitable right . Yet fome of the celestial beings , thus op- pofed to each other , muft have been re- prefented as defending guilt . That this poem was never written , is reafonably to be lamented . It ...
... muft fight in the defence of indubitable right . Yet fome of the celestial beings , thus op- pofed to each other , muft have been re- prefented as defending guilt . That this poem was never written , is reafonably to be lamented . It ...
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... the lowest kind of merit . The merit of pleafing muft , however , be estimated by the means . Favour is not always gained by good actions or laudable laudable qualities . Careffes and pre- ferments are often beffowed 142 DRYDEN .
... the lowest kind of merit . The merit of pleafing muft , however , be estimated by the means . Favour is not always gained by good actions or laudable laudable qualities . Careffes and pre- ferments are often beffowed 142 DRYDEN .
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