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" In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth : there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral : easy, vulgar, and, therefore, disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Lives of the poets - Page 119
by Samuel Johnson - 1825
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 pages
...and Mincius, nor tells of rough fatyrs and fauns 'with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fidion there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature,...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that .of a paftoral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore difgufting : whatever images it can fupply, are long ago exhaufted...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pages
...and Mincius, nor tells of rough fafyn and fauns icith c/oven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature,...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pafroral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore difgufting: whatever images it can lupply, are long ago exhaufled...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 pages
...rough fatyr$ and fauns ivith cloven heeL Where there is leifure for fi&ion there is little grief. Li this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore difgufting : whatever images it can fupply, are long ago exhaufted...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...and Mincius, nor tells of rough fatyn and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature,...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore ' difgufting ; whatever images it can fupply, are long ago exhaufted...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nalkire, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore difgufting ; whatever images it can fupply, are long ago exhaufted...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...and Mincius, nor tells of rough fatyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature,...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral, eafy, vulgar, and therefore difgufting : whatever images it can fupply, are long ago exhaufted...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...rough satyr* \fims-Mth cloven fuel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. luftts poem there is no nature, for there is no truth, there is no art, for there ing new. Its form is of that a of pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therrfore instating; whatever images...
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Lives of English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...Mincius, nor tells of rough fatyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction, there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature,...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral; eafy, vulgar, and therefore difgufting ; whatever images it can fupply are long ago exhaufted...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...Minucius, nor tells of rough satyrs and_/azflw with cloven heel. Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature,...there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is of that a of pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply, are...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...Mincius, nor tells of rough fatyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Where there is leifure for fiction, there is little grief. In this poem there is no nature,...art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a paftoral ; eafy, vulgar, and therefore di%ufting ; whatever images it can fuppty are are long ago cxhaufted...
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