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For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of his clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , understood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advantage from the ...
For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of his clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , understood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advantage from the ...
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The progress of refinement rarely supplies these arts with better objects of imitation . It may , indeed , improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter .
The progress of refinement rarely supplies these arts with better objects of imitation . It may , indeed , improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter .
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... is the Divine Comedy . The sub- ject of Milton , in some points , resembled that of Dante ; but he has treated it in a widely different manner . We cannot , we think , better illustrate our opinion respecting our own great poet ...
... is the Divine Comedy . The sub- ject of Milton , in some points , resembled that of Dante ; but he has treated it in a widely different manner . We cannot , we think , better illustrate our opinion respecting our own great poet ...
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Neither Theocritus nor Ariosto had a finer or a more healthful sense of the pleasantness of external objects , or loved better to luxuriate amidst sunbeams and flowers , the songs of nightingales , the juice of summer fruits , and the ...
Neither Theocritus nor Ariosto had a finer or a more healthful sense of the pleasantness of external objects , or loved better to luxuriate amidst sunbeams and flowers , the songs of nightingales , the juice of summer fruits , and the ...
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In one respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a papist ; we say in name and profession , because both Charles him- ...
In one respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a papist ; we say in name and profession , because both Charles him- ...
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