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" New sentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and 30 needless curiosity. "
Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer: A Duty to Examine the Labors of the Learned - Page 74
by Brian Hanley - 2001 - 293 pages
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prefaces biographical and crirical to the works of the english poets

samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...his laft years, Hall's Satires were fhewn him, he wifhed that he had feen them fooner. New fentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of verification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their beft, and what fhall be added...
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Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...laft years, Hall's Satires were iliewn him, he wifhed that he had feen them fooner. New fentiments and new images others may produce .; but to attempt any further improvement of verfification will be dangerous. Art and diligenc\have now done their beft, and what lliall be" added...
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The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 418 pages
...laft years, Hall's Satires were fhewn him, he wifhed that he had feen them fooner. New fentimer.ts and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of verfification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their beft, and what fhall be added...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...his laft years, Hall's Satires were fhewn him, he wifhed that he had feen them fooner. New fentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of verfification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their beft, and what fhall be added...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 pages
...his laft years, Hall's Satires were ihewn him, he wjihed that he had feen them fboner. New fcntiments and new images others may produce; but to attempt any further improvement of verfification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their beft, and what fhall be added...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...his laft years, Hall's Satires were fhewn him, he wifhed that he had feen them fooner. New fentiments and new images others may produce; but to attempt any further improvement of verfification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their beft, and what fhall be added...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...his laft years, Hall's Satires were (hewn him, he wifhed that he had feen them fdoner. New fentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of verfification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their beft, and what fhall be added...
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...farther improvemei t or versification, beyond what Pope has given us in his translation of Homer-s Iliad, will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done...the effort of tedious toil, and needless curiosity. Life of Pope, RHETORICIAN. There is no credit due to a rhetorician's aci- , eount either of good or...
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A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century: Part the First in ..., Volume 3

Samuel Miller - 1805 - 422 pages
...have never been exceeded since his time. '' New sentiments, and new images," says a great critic, " others may produce; but to attempt any further improvement...versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now i * A friend of learning and taste, on reading what is said of the comparative merits of these two...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...seen them sooucr. • New sentiments and new images others may produce; but to attempt any farther improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art...done their best, and what shall be added will be the eftbrt of tedious toil and needless cu.r riosity. After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer...
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