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... poetic diction absent from Dryden's . Where Dryden has " The Trees and Floods were witness to their Tears " ( 1. 29 ) Johnson has " The limpid streams with ruefull murmurs flow / And all the withering woods confess their woe " ( 11 . 3 ...
... poetic diction absent from Dryden's . Where Dryden has " The Trees and Floods were witness to their Tears " ( 1. 29 ) Johnson has " The limpid streams with ruefull murmurs flow / And all the withering woods confess their woe " ( 11 . 3 ...
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... poetic powers and Johnson was just a schoolboy- and criticism should disdain to chase a schoolboy to his common- places . Before saying something about Johnson's satiric use of poetic diction , it remains to catalogue some of the other ...
... poetic powers and Johnson was just a schoolboy- and criticism should disdain to chase a schoolboy to his common- places . Before saying something about Johnson's satiric use of poetic diction , it remains to catalogue some of the other ...
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... poetic diction used seriously , there can be equally little doubt that he , following an example set by earlier poets , used other items of poetic diction satirically or facetiously . Words such as " race , " " tribe , " " train ...
... poetic diction used seriously , there can be equally little doubt that he , following an example set by earlier poets , used other items of poetic diction satirically or facetiously . Words such as " race , " " tribe , " " train ...
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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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