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" The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed... "
Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Page 120
by Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 pages
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Literary Criticism: Pope to Croce

Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...diligently planted, varied with shades and scented with flowers. The composition of Shakespeare is a forest in which oaks extend their branches and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses;...
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William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, Volume 5

Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...diligently planted, varied with shades and scented with flowers; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses;...
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The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses;...
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Samuel Johnson's "general Nature": Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth ...

Scott D. Evans - Philosophy of nature - 1999 - 180 pages
...planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses;...
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Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature

Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 254 pages
...shades, and scented with flowers," Johnson argues that "the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses;...
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De la poesía a la literatura: el cambio de los conceptos en la formación del ...

Inke Gunia - Comics & Graphic Novels - 2008 - 318 pages
...planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers; the composition of Shakespeare is af orest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses;...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 4

Bible - 1847 - 828 pages
...diligently planted, varied with shades and scented with flowers ; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest in which oaks extend their branches and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and roses, filling...
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