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From CONJECTURES ON ORIGINAL COMPOSITION Imitations are of two kinds : one of nature , one of authors . The first we call originals , and confine the term imitation to the second . I shall not enter into the curious inquiry of what is ...
From CONJECTURES ON ORIGINAL COMPOSITION Imitations are of two kinds : one of nature , one of authors . The first we call originals , and confine the term imitation to the second . I shall not enter into the curious inquiry of what is ...
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Even a poet of ordinary genius will in such a state of society present us with some original ideas in his ... will to us appear original , though they may not be really such if the true originals are lost of which the works that yet ...
Even a poet of ordinary genius will in such a state of society present us with some original ideas in his ... will to us appear original , though they may not be really such if the true originals are lost of which the works that yet ...
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In his own art only he can never become an original author by such means , nor , strictly speaking , so much as acquire the materials by the use of which he may justly attain this character : for the ideas derived from books , that is ...
In his own art only he can never become an original author by such means , nor , strictly speaking , so much as acquire the materials by the use of which he may justly attain this character : for the ideas derived from books , that is ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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