The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson, Том 4John Nichols, 1790 |
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... performance the value certainly is but little ; but it was one of the lucky trifles that give pleasure by novelty , and was so much favoured by the audience , that envy appeared against it in the form of criticifm ; and Griffin , a ...
... performance the value certainly is but little ; but it was one of the lucky trifles that give pleasure by novelty , and was so much favoured by the audience , that envy appeared against it in the form of criticifm ; and Griffin , a ...
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... performance was driven off the stage with general condemnation . * Gay is reprefented as a man easily incited to hope , and deeply depreffed when his hopes were difappointed . This is not the character , of a hero ; but it may naturally ...
... performance was driven off the stage with general condemnation . * Gay is reprefented as a man easily incited to hope , and deeply depreffed when his hopes were difappointed . This is not the character , of a hero ; but it may naturally ...
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... performance , when it was printed the reception was different , according to the different opinion of its readers . Swift com- mended it for the excellence of its morality , as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the " strongest ...
... performance , when it was printed the reception was different , according to the different opinion of its readers . Swift com- mended it for the excellence of its morality , as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the " strongest ...
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... performance , the Rural Sports , is fuch as was cafily planned and executed ; it is never contemptible , nor ever excellent . The Fan is one of thofe mythological fictions which antiquity delivers ready to the hand , but which , like ...
... performance , the Rural Sports , is fuch as was cafily planned and executed ; it is never contemptible , nor ever excellent . The Fan is one of thofe mythological fictions which antiquity delivers ready to the hand , but which , like ...
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... performance is a defence of his relation Sir Richard Greenville , whom lord Clarendon has fhewn in a form very un- amiable . So much is urged in this apology , to to justify many actions that have been repre- fented as GRANVILLE 29.
... performance is a defence of his relation Sir Richard Greenville , whom lord Clarendon has fhewn in a form very un- amiable . So much is urged in this apology , to to justify many actions that have been repre- fented as GRANVILLE 29.
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