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The lives of the English poets - Page 193
by Samuel Johnson - 1810
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 pages
...generally uncouth and party-coloured ; neither original nor translated, neither ancient nor modern.379 Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genins. He had Invention, by which new trains "Tjf"Sven!s are formed, and neWBcenes of imagery displayed,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope ...

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...generally uncouth and party-coloured ; neither original nor translated, neither ancient nor modern. Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each...displayed, as in the Rape of the Lock ; and by which extrinsic and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject, as...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 pages
...generally uncouth and party-coloured ; neither original nor translated, neither ancient nor modern."' Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each...formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, as in ' The Eape of the Lock ;' and by which extrinsic and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical ..., Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1865 - 426 pages
...generally uncouth and party-coloured; neither original nor translated, -neither ancient nor modern. Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that coustitute genins. He had Invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1866 - 654 pages
...generally uncouth and party-coloured ; neither original nor translated, neither ancient nor modern."" Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each...other, all the qualities that constitute genius. He had Jnrcnti<ni, by which 1 new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, as in...
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Dublin examination papers

Dublin city, univ - 1869 - 336 pages
...Notice the chief " defects and faults" of "Paradise Lost," according to Johnson. 5. Johnson says, " Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each...other, all the qualities that constitute genius." How does Johnson develop this remark ? Do you agree with Johnson ? 6. Notice some of Milton's Latmisms....
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Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...generally uncouth and party-coloured : neither original nor translated, neither ancient nor modern. Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each...displayed, as in ' The Rape of the Lock;' and by which extrinsic and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject, as...
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The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life ...

Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 pages
...genius. He had Invention, which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of ' other\ on, by I imagery displayed, as in the Rape of the Lock ; and by which extrinsic and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are :onnected with a known subject, as...
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Johnsoniana: Life, Opinions, and Table-talk of Doctor Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each...displayed, as in The Rape of the Lock ; and by which extrinsic and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject, as...
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Dublin examination papers

Dublin city, univ - 1885 - 476 pages
...Johnson's criticism on the simile of The Alps in Pope's Essay on Criticism ? (4) "Pope," says Johnson, "had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius" : (c) What memorable cori-ections in the later editions of the First Epistle of the Essay on Man are...
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