The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 32-34Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 - English poetry |
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... reasons , to omit . Some from the Manuscript - copy of the Effay on Man , which tended to difcredit fate , and to recommend the moral government of God , had , by the Editor's advice , been restored to their places in the last Edition ...
... reasons , to omit . Some from the Manuscript - copy of the Effay on Man , which tended to difcredit fate , and to recommend the moral government of God , had , by the Editor's advice , been restored to their places in the last Edition ...
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... reasons and pretences , or troubled with excuses . I confefs it was want of confideration that made me an author ... reason to think they can have no reputation which will continue long , or which deserves to do fo : for they have ...
... reasons and pretences , or troubled with excuses . I confefs it was want of confideration that made me an author ... reason to think they can have no reputation which will continue long , or which deserves to do fo : for they have ...
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... both by my friends and enemies : But the true reason these pieces are not more correct , is owing to the confi- deration how short a time they and I have to live : One One may be ashamed to confume half one's days in PREFACE .
... both by my friends and enemies : But the true reason these pieces are not more correct , is owing to the confi- deration how short a time they and I have to live : One One may be ashamed to confume half one's days in PREFACE .
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... reason they are not yet more correct is owing to the consideration how short a time they , and I , have to live . A man that can expect but fixty years , may be ashamed to em- ploy thirty in measuring fyllables , and bringing sense and ...
... reason they are not yet more correct is owing to the consideration how short a time they , and I , have to live . A man that can expect but fixty years , may be ashamed to em- ploy thirty in measuring fyllables , and bringing sense and ...
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... reason for his labouring them into so much foftness , was , doubtless , that this fort of poetry derives almost its whole beauty from a natural ease of thought and smoothness of verse ; whereas that of most other kinds confifts in the ...
... reason for his labouring them into so much foftness , was , doubtless , that this fort of poetry derives almost its whole beauty from a natural ease of thought and smoothness of verse ; whereas that of most other kinds confifts in the ...
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