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... Poets , he set himself a task which involved , many times over , the scrutiny of authorial hopes and their fate , over the previous hundred years . The very nature of the subject entailed the continual confrontation of briefly - held ...
... Poets , he set himself a task which involved , many times over , the scrutiny of authorial hopes and their fate , over the previous hundred years . The very nature of the subject entailed the continual confrontation of briefly - held ...
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... poem in a manner ' calm and confi- dent , little disappointed , not at all dejected , relying on his own merit with ... Poets . It is an immunity accorded to him by the origina- lity of his genius : ' of all the borrowers from Homer ...
... poem in a manner ' calm and confi- dent , little disappointed , not at all dejected , relying on his own merit with ... Poets . It is an immunity accorded to him by the origina- lity of his genius : ' of all the borrowers from Homer ...
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... Poets , vol . 1 , p . 469 . Ibid . , vol . 1 , pp . 464–5 . Leopold Damrosch , The Uses of Johnson's Criticism ( Charlottesville , Va . , 1976 ) pp . 214-15 : Jean H. Hagstrum , Samuel Johnson's Literary Criticism ( Minneapo- lis , Minn ...
... Poets , vol . 1 , p . 469 . Ibid . , vol . 1 , pp . 464–5 . Leopold Damrosch , The Uses of Johnson's Criticism ( Charlottesville , Va . , 1976 ) pp . 214-15 : Jean H. Hagstrum , Samuel Johnson's Literary Criticism ( Minneapo- lis , Minn ...
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surly virtue and pleasing dream | 4 |
The Vanity of Human Wishes | 42 |
those that aspire to the name | 57 |
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