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" But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the least indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hindrance: he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images of his predecessors,... "
The Lives of the English Poets - Page 124
by Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 pages
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 pages
...epick poem, and therefore muft yield to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations muft be indebted for ;the art of poetical narration, for...texture of the fable, .the variation of in'cidents, the interpofition or dialogue, and all the flratagems that .furprife and enchain attention. But, of all...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pages
...epick poem, and therefore muft yield to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations muft be indebted for the art of poetical narration, for...texture of the fable, the variation of incidents, the interpofition or dialogue, and all the ftratagems that furprife and enchain attention. But, of all...
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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
...and therefore owes reverence to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations mull rnufl be indebted for the art of poetical narration, for...texture of the fable, the variation of incidents, the interpofition of dialogue, and all the ftratagems that fur prill- and enchain attention. But, of all...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...poem, and therefore owes reverence to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations muft be Indebted for the art of poetical narration, for...texture of the fable, the variation of incidents, the interpofition of dialogue, and all the ftratagems that furprife and enchain attention. But, of all...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...po^rn, and therefore owes reverence to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations muft be indebted for the art of poetical narration, for...texture of the fable, the variation of incidents, the interpofition of dialogue, and all the ftratagems that lurprife and enchain attention. But, of all...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...fable, the variation of incident, the interpofition or dialogue, and all the ftratagems that furprife and enchain attention. But, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton is perhaps the leaft indebted. He was naturally a thinker for himfelf, confident of his own abilities, and difdainful...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...have contrived the structure of an epic poem, and therefore must yield to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations must be indebted...fable, the variation of incidents, the interposition or dialogue, and all the stratagems that surprize and enchain attention. But, of all the borrowers...
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Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and Illustrations

Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 278 pages
...poem, and therefore muft yield to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations' muft be indebted for the art of poetical narration, for the texture of the fable, the variation of incident, the interpofition of dialogue, and all the ftratagems that furprife and enchain attention....
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...therefore owes revi rtnce to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations must be ;ed_for the art of poetical narration, for the texture of...the stratagems that surprise and enchain attention. Bur, of all the borrowers from Homer, Milton upsthe least indebted. He was naturally a thinker for...
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Lives of English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...poem, and therefore owes reverence to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations muft be indebted for the art of poetical narration, for...texture of the fable, the variation of incidents, the interpofition of dialogue, and all the flratagems that furprize and enchain attention. But, of all...
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