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The Lives of the English Poets Prior: Congreve

Samuel Johnson
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How, says the critic, can wit be scorned where it is not? Is not this a figure frequently employed in Hibernian land! The person that wants this wit may indeed be scorned, but the scorn shows the honour which the contemner has for wit. Of this remark Pope made the proper use, by correcting the passage.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Date
10 September 2010
Pages
148
ISBN
9781162671468

How, says the critic, can wit be scorned where it is not? Is not this a figure frequently employed in Hibernian land! The person that wants this wit may indeed be scorned, but the scorn shows the honour which the contemner has for wit. Of this remark Pope made the proper use, by correcting the passage.

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Date
10 September 2010
Pages
148
ISBN
9781162671468

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