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" Then, Sir, what is poetry?" JOHNSON: "Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is. "
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Our Greatest Writers: And Their Major Works

John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pages
...a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. - Q: Sir, what is poetry? A: Why, sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. - A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. - It matters not how a man dies, but how he...
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Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing

Iain H. Woodhouse - 2005 - 410 pages
...estimation of forest canopy heights. The list continues to grow... 2 A BRIEF HISTORY OF MICROWAVES We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is. — Dr. Samuel Johnson (1776) The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely...
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Astronomical Spectroscopy: An Introduction to the Atomic and Molecular ...

Jonathan Tennyson - 2005 - 203 pages
...relative to earth? Is it moving towards us or away from us? Problems CHAPTER TWO THE NATURE OF SPECTRA ' We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.' — Samuel Johnson, quoted by Boswell (1776) 2.1 Transitions All atoms have a series of discrete, quantised...
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A Hand Book on Theory and Practice of Illuminating Engineering, Volume 1

Kamalesh Roy - 1988 - 238 pages
...Mrs. Renuka Roy who brought for me the very first ray of LIGHT ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING PARTI THEORY "We all know what light is; but it is not easy to say what it is* — Samuel Johnson. and the Lord Said "LET THERE BE LIGHT" Book of Genesis and God...
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Poetry in Our Time: The Poet, Publisher, Reader, and Reviewer

Eddie Wainwright - 2008 - 114 pages
...years ago, Bosnia, now Darfur and Iraq, next year. . . Who knows? EW 1 . Towards a Definition of Poetry "Sir, what is poetry?" "Why, Sir, it is much easier...what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is. " Boswell's Life of Johnson Johnson's rejoinder was, of course, a cop-out; and when I was asked recently,...
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Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-century Britain

John T. Lynch - 2008 - 244 pages
...Locke1 James Boswell once naively asked Samuel Johnson, "What is poetry?" "Why, Sir," replied Johnson, "it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know...what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is."2 We might say the same thing about forgery: we all know what forgery is, but it is not easy to...
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