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Pagina 63
Samuel Johnson. The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously displayed in our poetical trans ... languages are formed upon different prin- ciples , it is impossible that the same modes of ex- pression should ...
Samuel Johnson. The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously displayed in our poetical trans ... languages are formed upon different prin- ciples , it is impossible that the same modes of ex- pression should ...
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... language with the wisdom of the ancients ; but found themselves re- duced , by whatever necessity , to turn the Greek and Roman poetry into prose . Whoever could read an author could translate him . From such rivals little can be feared ...
... language with the wisdom of the ancients ; but found themselves re- duced , by whatever necessity , to turn the Greek and Roman poetry into prose . Whoever could read an author could translate him . From such rivals little can be feared ...
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... language . The dis- criminating character of ease consists principally in the diction ; for all true poetry requires that the senti- ments be natural . Language suffers violence by harsh or by daring figures , by transposition , by ...
... language . The dis- criminating character of ease consists principally in the diction ; for all true poetry requires that the senti- ments be natural . Language suffers violence by harsh or by daring figures , by transposition , by ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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