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Pagina 99
... opinion wanders about the world , and sometimes finds reception among wise men ; an opinion that restrains the operations of the mind to particular regions , and supposes that a luckless mortal may be born in a degree of latitude too ...
... opinion wanders about the world , and sometimes finds reception among wise men ; an opinion that restrains the operations of the mind to particular regions , and supposes that a luckless mortal may be born in a degree of latitude too ...
Pagina 149
... opinions , are temporary and local , and therefore become every day less intelligible , and less striking . What Cicero says of philosophy is true likewise of wit and humour , as that time effaces the fictions of opinion , and BUTLER 149.
... opinions , are temporary and local , and therefore become every day less intelligible , and less striking . What Cicero says of philosophy is true likewise of wit and humour , as that time effaces the fictions of opinion , and BUTLER 149.
Pagina 263
... opinion , the last scene in the third act is a masterpiece . It is introduced by a discourse on the grounds of criticism in tragedy ; to which I suspect that Rymer's book had given occasion . The Spanish Fryar is a tragi - comedy ...
... opinion , the last scene in the third act is a masterpiece . It is introduced by a discourse on the grounds of criticism in tragedy ; to which I suspect that Rymer's book had given occasion . The Spanish Fryar is a tragi - comedy ...
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Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson,George Birkbeck Norman Hill Fragmentweergave - 1968 |
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