Essays on Various Subjects, 2Johnson, 1809 |
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... taste and elegance than a great man ; but this is praise in comparison of what hy- pocrisy can exhibit , and he is entitled to this praise , if for no other reason , because he was the constant and liberal patron of literary men . The ...
... taste and elegance than a great man ; but this is praise in comparison of what hy- pocrisy can exhibit , and he is entitled to this praise , if for no other reason , because he was the constant and liberal patron of literary men . The ...
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... taste . But the cha racter of many of the most strenuous de- fenders of materialism is above all sinister suspicion , and the most dignified religion can be solidly defended on the ground of materialism . There is another prejudice in ...
... taste . But the cha racter of many of the most strenuous de- fenders of materialism is above all sinister suspicion , and the most dignified religion can be solidly defended on the ground of materialism . There is another prejudice in ...
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... taste and criticism , and her influence be found equally injurious to truth in each . It has been said , that , when system begins , genius ends . This , like many other bold maxims , the very boldness of which conciliates belief , must ...
... taste and criticism , and her influence be found equally injurious to truth in each . It has been said , that , when system begins , genius ends . This , like many other bold maxims , the very boldness of which conciliates belief , must ...
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... taste , which we can sacri- fice only to Homer , or to Virgil . These a venerable antiquity has equally excepted from the decision of modern taste , and , I might add , of a taste more chaste , correct and elevated . The Poetics and ...
... taste , which we can sacri- fice only to Homer , or to Virgil . These a venerable antiquity has equally excepted from the decision of modern taste , and , I might add , of a taste more chaste , correct and elevated . The Poetics and ...
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... taste and elegance ; excellencies have been dis- covered in them , which , in all probability , their authors , with all the vanity of an author , had no idea of , and which the mo- dern literati neither see nor feel , but only suppose ...
... taste and elegance ; excellencies have been dis- covered in them , which , in all probability , their authors , with all the vanity of an author , had no idea of , and which the mo- dern literati neither see nor feel , but only suppose ...
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