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The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces - Page 283
by Samuel Johnson - 1772
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 376 pages
...leafl as an imitator. Next to argument, his delight was in wild and daring fallies of fentiment, in th6 irregular and excentrick violence of wit. He delighted...nonfenfe, which he knew; as, Move fwiftly, fun, and fly a lover's pace, Leave weeks and months behind thee in thy race. Amariel flies To guard thee from...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 364 pages
...fentiment, in the irregular and excentrick violence of wif. He delighted to tread ' upon the brink ef meaning, where light and darknefs begin to mingle...nonfenfe, which he knew ; as, Move fwiftly, fun, and fly a lover's pace, Leave weeks and months behind thee in thy ra$e. Amariel flies To guard thee from...
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Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 476 pages
...he feems to have had not from nature, but from other poets ; if not always as a plagiary, at leaft as an imitator. Next to argument, his delight was...nonfenfe, which he knew ; as, Move fwiftly, fun, and fly a lover's pace, Leave weeks and months behind thee in thy race. Amariel flies To guard thee from...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...argument, his delight was in wild and daring failles of fentiment, in the irregular and e?;centrick violence of wit. He delighted to tread upon the brink. of meaning, where light and darknefs begin {o mingle ; to approach the precipice of abfurdity, and hover over the abyfs of unideal vacancy. This...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 2

English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...he feems to have had not from nature, but from other poets ; if not always as a plagiary, at leaft as an imitator. Next to argument, his delight was...mingle; to approach the precipice of abfurdity, and haver over the abyfs of unideal vacancy. This inclination fometimes produced nonfenfe, which he knew...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...argument, his delight was in wild and daring fallies of fentiment, in the irregular and eceentrick violence of wit. He delighted to tread upon the brink...produced nonfenfe, which he knew; as, Move fwiftly, Sun, and fly a lover's pace, Leave weeks and months behind thee in thy race. -Amajnel ffies To guard...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Dryden. Rochester ...

1793 - 806 pages
...delight шиш wild and daring Tallies of fentiment, in the irregular and eccentric violence of wie. He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning, where...light and darknefs begin to mingle, to approach the [.<•:• cipice of abfurdity, and hover over the abyfs of unideal vacancy. " He wa< no lover cf labour....
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Dryden. Smith. Duke. King ...

Samuel Johnson - 1794 - 450 pages
...argument, his delight was in wild and daring fallies of fentiment, in the irregular and eccentrick violence of wit. He delighted to tread upon the brink...produced nonfenfe, which he knew ; as, Move fwiftly, Sun, 'and fly a lover's pace, Leave weeks and months behind thee in thy race . Amamel flies To guard...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...paflionate, he feems to have had not from nature, but from other poets; if not always as a plagiary, at leaft as an imitator. Next to argument, his delight was...nonfenfe, which he knew; as, Move fwiftly, fun, and fly a lover's pace, Leave weeks and months behind thee in thy race. Amariel flies To guard thee from...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 842 pages
...to argument, his delight was in wild and daring Tallies of fentimcnt, in the irregular and eccentric violence of wit. He delighted to tread upon the brink...darknefs begin to mingle, to approach the precipice of ablurdity, and hover over the abyfs of unideal vacancy. " He was no lover ef labour. What he thought...
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