The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 3D. Buchanan, sold by him, & by W. Creech, P. Hill, W. Mudie, & A. Constable, Edinburgh, 1800 |
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... fills and delights the mind with change of language and fucceffion of images ; every couplet when pro- duced is new , and novelty is the great fource of pleasure . pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line fuperfluous 22 PRIOR .
... fills and delights the mind with change of language and fucceffion of images ; every couplet when pro- duced is new , and novelty is the great fource of pleasure . pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line fuperfluous 22 PRIOR .
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line fuperfluous when he firft wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had fub- fided . And even if he should ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line fuperfluous when he firft wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had fub- fided . And even if he should ...
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... pleasure can be given . His first performance was a novel , called Incognita , or Love and Duty reconciled : It is praised by the bio- graphers , who quote fome part of the preface , that is indeed , for fuch a time of life , uncommonly ...
... pleasure can be given . His first performance was a novel , called Incognita , or Love and Duty reconciled : It is praised by the bio- graphers , who quote fome part of the preface , that is indeed , for fuch a time of life , uncommonly ...
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... pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the Spectator , and only one paper to the Tatler , though published by men with whom he might be fuppofed willing to affociate ; and though he lived many years after the publication of ...
... pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the Spectator , and only one paper to the Tatler , though published by men with whom he might be fuppofed willing to affociate ; and though he lived many years after the publication of ...
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... pleasure , and as he was not deterred by cenfure , he was not fatiated with praife . He deviated , however , fometimes into other tracks of literature , and condefcended to entertain his readers with plain profe . When the Spectator ...
... pleasure , and as he was not deterred by cenfure , he was not fatiated with praife . He deviated , however , fometimes into other tracks of literature , and condefcended to entertain his readers with plain profe . When the Spectator ...
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