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Pagina 25
... pleasure had he not known its author . JOHNSON ON PARADISE LOST I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem which considered with respect to design , may claim the first place , and with respect to performance , the second , among the ...
... pleasure had he not known its author . JOHNSON ON PARADISE LOST I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem which considered with respect to design , may claim the first place , and with respect to performance , the second , among the ...
Pagina 37
... Pleasure and terror are indeed the genuine sources of poetry ; but poetical pleasure must be such as human imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrors such as human strength and fortitude may combat . The good and evil of ...
... Pleasure and terror are indeed the genuine sources of poetry ; but poetical pleasure must be such as human imagination can at least conceive , and poetical terrors such as human strength and fortitude may combat . The good and evil of ...
Pagina 143
... pleasure or advantage ; why she should endeavour to destroy him by a lie — a lie which could not gain credit , but must vanish of itself at the first moment of examination , and of which only this can be said to make it probable , that ...
... pleasure or advantage ; why she should endeavour to destroy him by a lie — a lie which could not gain credit , but must vanish of itself at the first moment of examination , and of which only this can be said to make it probable , that ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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