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... elegance " as " beauty of art ; rather soothing than striking ; beauty without grandeur " and " elegant " as " pleasing with minuter beauties " and " nice ; not coarse ; not gross . " 2 Evidently " elegance " was a virtue in a poet ...
... elegance " as " beauty of art ; rather soothing than striking ; beauty without grandeur " and " elegant " as " pleasing with minuter beauties " and " nice ; not coarse ; not gross . " 2 Evidently " elegance " was a virtue in a poet ...
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... elegance . " Boswell was at that time in Oxford and was doubtless somewhat moved by the genius of the place , for he ... elegant lines of a modern poet , " i.e. , John Home's tragedy Agis , and as many from " that pathetick and beautiful ...
... elegance . " Boswell was at that time in Oxford and was doubtless somewhat moved by the genius of the place , for he ... elegant lines of a modern poet , " i.e. , John Home's tragedy Agis , and as many from " that pathetick and beautiful ...
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... elegance " despite the sameness of their subjects ( II : 200 ) . Swift's Lilliputians are " ingeniously imagined ... elegant panegyrick " on the dedicatee's father ( II : 210 ) ; and William Mason's Ode to Memory is " a noble piece ...
... elegance " despite the sameness of their subjects ( II : 200 ) . Swift's Lilliputians are " ingeniously imagined ... elegant panegyrick " on the dedicatee's father ( II : 210 ) ; and William Mason's Ode to Memory is " a noble piece ...
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Paging Through Boswells Life of Johnson | 3 |
Notes on Johnsons Hebridean Jaunt | 15 |
Johnsons Early Translations from Virgil Homer and Horace | 23 |
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