The Works of the English Poets, Հատոր 34W. and A. Strahan, 1779 - 318 էջ |
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... thought , fince the danger was common to all , the concern ought to be fo ; and that it was an act of justice to detect the Authors , not only on this account , but as many of them are the fame who for feveral years past have made free ...
... thought , fince the danger was common to all , the concern ought to be fo ; and that it was an act of justice to detect the Authors , not only on this account , but as many of them are the fame who for feveral years past have made free ...
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... thought the leaft valuable part of his character , ) but the honest , open , and bene- ficent man , that we moft efteemed , and loved in him . Now , if what these people fay were believed , I must appear to all my friends either a fool ...
... thought the leaft valuable part of his character , ) but the honest , open , and bene- ficent man , that we moft efteemed , and loved in him . Now , if what these people fay were believed , I must appear to all my friends either a fool ...
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... thought of : Law can pro- nounce judgment only on open facts : Morality alone can pafs cenfure on intentions of Mischief ; so that for fecret calumny , or the arrow flying in the dark , there is no public punishment left , but what a ...
... thought of : Law can pro- nounce judgment only on open facts : Morality alone can pafs cenfure on intentions of Mischief ; so that for fecret calumny , or the arrow flying in the dark , there is no public punishment left , but what a ...
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... thoughts are crude and abortive , his expreffions ab- " furd , his numbers harsh and unmufical , his rhymes " trivial and common ; -instead of majesty , we have fomething that is very mean ; instead of gravity , " fomething that is very ...
... thoughts are crude and abortive , his expreffions ab- " furd , his numbers harsh and unmufical , his rhymes " trivial and common ; -instead of majesty , we have fomething that is very mean ; instead of gravity , " fomething that is very ...
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... thoughts over again , making them still more " trite . Most of their pieces are nothing but a pert , " infipid heap of common - place . Horace has , even in " his Art of Poetry , thrown out several things which " plainly fhew , he thought ...
... thoughts over again , making them still more " trite . Most of their pieces are nothing but a pert , " infipid heap of common - place . Horace has , even in " his Art of Poetry , thrown out several things which " plainly fhew , he thought ...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Հատոր 34 Samuel Johnson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1779 |
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