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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the English poets (cont ... - Page 329
by Samuel Johnson - 1825
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...leave intervals where the eye will be pleafed, and to thicken the plantation where there is fomething to be hidden, demands any great powers of mind, I will not enquire ; perhaps a fallen and furly Ipeculator may think fuch performances rather the fport than the...
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prefaces biographical and critical to the works of the english poets

SAMUEL johnson - 1781 - 292 pages
...leave intervals where the eye will be pleafed, and to thicken the plantation where there is fomething to be hidden, demands any great powers of mind, I will not enquire ; perhaps a fullen and furly Speculator may think fuch performances rather the fport than z...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 294 pages
...leave intervals where the eye will be pleafed, and to thicken the plantation where there is fomething to be hidden, demands any great powers of mind, I will not enquire; perhaps a fulleri and furly {peculator may think fuch performances rather the.fport than 2,...
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The Monthly Review; or, Litereary Journal: From January to June, inclusive.

Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pages
...leave intervals where the eye will be pleafed, and to thicken the plantation where there is fomething to be hidden, demands any great powers of mind, I will not enquire; perhaps a füllen and furly /peculator may think fuch performances rather the fport than the...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 66

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1782 - 588 pages
...leave intervals where the eye will be pleafed, and to thicken the plantation where there is fomething to be hidden, demands any great powers of mind, I will not enquire; perhaps a fujlen and furly fpeculator may think fuch performances rather the fport than the...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...there is an object to catch the view ; to make \vater run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen ; to leave intervals where the eye...great powers of mind, I will not inquire : perhaps a surly and sullen speculator may think such performances rather the sport than the business of human...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...leave intervals where the eye will be pleafed,. and to thicken the plantation where there is fomething to be hidden ; demands any great powers of mind, I will not enquire : perhaps a fullen and furly fpeculator may think fuch performances rather the fport than the...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...leave intervals where the eye will be pleafed, and to thicken the plantation where there is fomething to be hidden ; demands any great powers of mind, I will not enquire : perhaps a fullen and furly fpeculator may think fuch performances rather the fport 'than...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...there is an object to catch the vie-.r; :o make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen; to leave intervals where the eye...hidden ; demands any great powers of mind, I will not enquire : perhaps a sullen and surly speculator may think such performancei rather the sport than the...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 340 pages
...le.ive intervals where the eye will be pleafcd, and to thicken the plantation where there is fomething to be hidden ; demands any great powers of mind, I will not inquire : perhaps a fullen and fuvly fpeculator may think i'uch performances rather the fport than the bufinefs of human...
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