Mr. Oddity, Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Bell Publishing Company, 1951 - 348 pages |
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Page 165
... poet that holds up to his read- ers a faithful mirror of manners and of life . His characters are not modified by ... poets a character is too often an individual : in those of Shake- speare it is commonly a species . " He states the ...
... poet that holds up to his read- ers a faithful mirror of manners and of life . His characters are not modified by ... poets a character is too often an individual : in those of Shake- speare it is commonly a species . " He states the ...
Page 276
... poet ? otherwise than by asking in return , If Pope be not a poet , where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer , though a definition which shall exclude Pope will ...
... poet ? otherwise than by asking in return , If Pope be not a poet , where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer , though a definition which shall exclude Pope will ...
Page 333
... Poets is immaterial ; it embodies , its conde- scension aside , the prejudice of a critical poet against the un- poetic critic , a prejudice which has been somewhat more so- berly expressed in the famous query of Coleridge in Anima ...
... Poets is immaterial ; it embodies , its conde- scension aside , the prejudice of a critical poet against the un- poetic critic , a prejudice which has been somewhat more so- berly expressed in the famous query of Coleridge in Anima ...
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