The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 55–56. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... fome time reprinting it without alteration , and to forbear pub- lishing any Corrections or Improvements until he should be able at once to give them to the Public complete . B And And with this view he went on for feveral years.
... fome time reprinting it without alteration , and to forbear pub- lishing any Corrections or Improvements until he should be able at once to give them to the Public complete . B And And with this view he went on for feveral years.
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... give the mind ideas analogous to those of moral approbation and diflike . As they are the in- lets of fome of the most exquifite pleasures with which we are acquainted , it has naturally happened that men of warm and fenfible tempers ...
... give the mind ideas analogous to those of moral approbation and diflike . As they are the in- lets of fome of the most exquifite pleasures with which we are acquainted , it has naturally happened that men of warm and fenfible tempers ...
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... give a view of these in the largest acceptation of the term ; so that whatever our imagination feels from the agreeable ap- pearances of nature , and all the various entertainment we meet with either in poetry , painting , mufic , or ...
... give a view of these in the largest acceptation of the term ; so that whatever our imagination feels from the agreeable ap- pearances of nature , and all the various entertainment we meet with either in poetry , painting , mufic , or ...
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... give it a particular illustration , and to diftinguish the general fources from which the ridicule of characters is derived . Here too a change of ftile became neceffary ; fuch a one as might yet be confiftent , if poffible , with the ...
... give it a particular illustration , and to diftinguish the general fources from which the ridicule of characters is derived . Here too a change of ftile became neceffary ; fuch a one as might yet be confiftent , if poffible , with the ...
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... give formal precepts , or enter into . the way of direct argumentation , as , by exhi- biting the most engaging profpects of nature , to enlarge and harmonize the imagination , and by that means . infenfibly difpofe the minds of men to ...
... give formal precepts , or enter into . the way of direct argumentation , as , by exhi- biting the most engaging profpects of nature , to enlarge and harmonize the imagination , and by that means . infenfibly difpofe the minds of men to ...
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