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What proves the truth of this noble picture in every part , and that the frequent complaint of want of interest in it is the fault of the reader , not of the poet , is that when any interest of a practical kind takes a shape that can be ...
What proves the truth of this noble picture in every part , and that the frequent complaint of want of interest in it is the fault of the reader , not of the poet , is that when any interest of a practical kind takes a shape that can be ...
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He takes advantage of all the most trite and mechanical common - places of imagery and diction as a kindly relief to his Muse , and as if he thought them quite as good , and likely to be quite as acceptable to the reader , as his own ...
He takes advantage of all the most trite and mechanical common - places of imagery and diction as a kindly relief to his Muse , and as if he thought them quite as good , and likely to be quite as acceptable to the reader , as his own ...
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The reader makes no way from the first line to the last . It is more than any thing in the world like Robinson Crusoe's boat , which would have been an excellent good boat , and would have carried him to the other side of the globe ...
The reader makes no way from the first line to the last . It is more than any thing in the world like Robinson Crusoe's boat , which would have been an excellent good boat , and would have carried him to the other side of the globe ...
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ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER | 31 |
ON SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON | 67 |
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