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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ... - Page 197
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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The Annual Register, Volume 22

History - 1796 - 690 pages
...lior's blindnefs oblig-> ed him to em.'loy. A iuppofition ram and groundkfs, if he thought it true ; and vile and pernicious, if, as is faid, he in private allowed it to be :,il(e. The plan of Paradife L»ft ha» this inconvenience, that it comprifes neither human actions...
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Annual Register, Volume 22

Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...author's bliudnefs obliged him to employ, A fuppofition ra(h and groundlefs; if he thought it true ; and vile and pernicious^ if, as is faid, he in private allowed. it to be falfe. The plan of P&radife Loft has this inconvenience, that it comprifes neither human aftjons nor human manners. The...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...employ. A fuppofition rafh and groundlefs, jf he thought it true; an<d vile and pernicious, clous, if, as is faid, he in private allowed it to be falfe....this inconvenience, that it comprifes neither human aftions nor human manners. The man and woman who aft. and fuffer, are in a ftate which no other man...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...to employ. A fuppofition rafh and groundlefs, if he thought it true; and vile and pernicious, cious, if, as is faid, he in private allowed it to be falfe. The plan of Paradtfe Loft has this inconvenience, that it comprifes neither human aftions nor human manners. The...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...author's blindnefs obliged him to employ. A fuppofition rafh and groundlefs, if he thought it true; and vile and pernicious, if, as is faid, he in private allowed it to be falfe. The plan of Paradlfe Lojt has this incon,venience, that it comprifes neither human actions nor human manners. The...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...author's blindnefs obliged him to employ. A fuppofition ram and groundlefs, if he thought it true ; and vile and pernicious, if} as is faid, he in private...actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and fufler, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaction in...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...author's blindnefs obliged him to employ. A fuppofition ram and groundlefs, if he thought it true ; and vile and pernicious, if, as is faid, he in private...comprifes neither human actions nor human manners. The man anl woman who act and fuffer, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1790 - 508 pages
...a fuppofition rafh and groundlefs, if he thought it true, and vile and pernicious, if, as ii faidj he in private allowed it to be falfe. The plan of Paradife Loft has this iticoovenience, that it comprifes neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1796 - 692 pages
...author's blindnefs obliged him to employ. A fuppofuion ralh and groundlefs, if he thought it true ; and vile and pernicious, if, as is faid, he in private allowed it to be falfe. The plan of Paradift Ltft ha* this inconvenience, that it comprifes neither human actions nor human manners. The...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...private allowed it to be false. The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprizes neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer, are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in...
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