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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on ... - Page 75
by Samuel Johnson - 1801
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The Annual Register, Volume 22

1796 - 690 pages
...no fyllem of words at once refined from the groflnefs of donullic ufe, and free from the harlhncfs of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpofa of a poet. From thofe foundat which we hear on fmall or on coarfe occafions, we do not eafily...
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The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces

Samuel Johnson - 1772 - 388 pages
...no fyftem of word,s at once refined from the groffnefs of domeftick ufe, and free from the harfhnefs of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too...:fmall .or' on coarfe occafions, we do not .eafily 'i9'2 DRYDE N. ,eafily receive flrong imprefEons, -or Delightful images, and words to which we •...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 364 pages
...fyftera • of words at once refined from the groffnefs of domeflick ufe, and free from the harfhnefs of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too...we hear on .fmall or on coarfe occafions, we do not «afily receive ftrong impreffions, or delightful images, and words to which we are nearly flrangers,...
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Annual Register, Volume 22

Edmund Burke - 1780 - 726 pages
...no fyttem of words at once refined from the groffnefs of domeftic ufe, and free from the harlhnefs of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too...coarfe occafions, we do not eafily receive ftrong impreffions, or delightful images, and words to which, we are nearly ilrangers, whenever they occur,...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, Volume 61

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pages
...from the groflncfs of domeflic ufe, and frfce from the harihnefs of terms appropriated to paiticular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the...purpofe of a poet. From thofe founds which we hear on {mall or on coarfe occafions, we do not eafily receive ftrong impreflions, or delightful images, and...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, Volume 61

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pages
...from the groflhcfs of domestic ufe, and free from the harfhnefs of terms appropriated to paiticular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the...purpofe of a poet. From thofe founds which we hear on {mall or on coarfe occafions, we do not eafily receive ftrong impreffions, or delightful images, and...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 61

1780 - 596 pages
...lyi'em of words at once refined from the groflhefs of do•teftic ale, and free from the harflinefs of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpofs of a poet. From thofe founds which we hear on fmall or on coirlt occasions, we do not eafily...
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The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 pages
...to affbciation, and have the influence, and that only, which cuflom has given them. Life of Cowley. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpofe of a poet. From thefe founds, which we hear on fmall, or coarfe occafions, we do not eafily receive ftrong Impreffions,...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...no fyftem of words at onee refined from the groffnefs of domeftick ufe, and free from ther harfhnefs of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too...coarfe occafions, we do not eafily receive ftrong impreffions,or delightful images; and words to which we arc nearly ftrangers, whenever they occur,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...no fyftem of words at once refined from the grollhefs of domeftick ufe, and free from the harfhnefs of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too...or too remote, defeat the purpofe of a poet. From thofc founds which we hear on (mall or on coarfe occafions, we do not eafily receive ftrong imprefiions,...
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