The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson, Том 4John Nichols, 1790 |
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... thing more generally welcome , a foft and civil companion . Whoever is apt to hope good from others is diligent to please them ; but he that believes his powers ftrong enough to force their own way , commonly tries only to please ...
... thing more generally welcome , a foft and civil companion . Whoever is apt to hope good from others is diligent to please them ; but he that believes his powers ftrong enough to force their own way , commonly tries only to please ...
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... thing a 4466 Newgate Paftoral might make . Gay was in- " clined to try at fuch a thing for fome time ; " but afterwards thought it would be better to " write a comedy on the same plan . This was " what gave rife to the Beggar's Opera ...
... thing a 4466 Newgate Paftoral might make . Gay was in- " clined to try at fuch a thing for fome time ; " but afterwards thought it would be better to " write a comedy on the same plan . This was " what gave rife to the Beggar's Opera ...
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... things that lie open to every one's ufe , are of little value . The attention natu- rally retires from a new tale of Venus , Diana , and Minerva . His Fables feem to have been a favourite work ; for having published one volume , he left ...
... things that lie open to every one's ufe , are of little value . The attention natu- rally retires from a new tale of Venus , Diana , and Minerva . His Fables feem to have been a favourite work ; for having published one volume , he left ...
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... thing of vigour beyond most of his other performances his precepts are juft , and his cautions proper ; they are indeed not new , but in a didactic poem novelty is to be expected only in the ornaments and illuftrations . His poetical ...
... thing of vigour beyond most of his other performances his precepts are juft , and his cautions proper ; they are indeed not new , but in a didactic poem novelty is to be expected only in the ornaments and illuftrations . His poetical ...
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... thing : Yet what he had ftol'n was fo little worth ftealing . They forgave him the damage and coft : Had he ta'en the whole ode , as he took it piece- mealing , They had fin'd him but ten - pence at most . The poet whom he was charged ...
... thing : Yet what he had ftol'n was fo little worth ftealing . They forgave him the damage and coft : Had he ta'en the whole ode , as he took it piece- mealing , They had fin'd him but ten - pence at most . The poet whom he was charged ...
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