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" This rule is still stronger with regard to arts not liberal, or confined to few, and therefore far removed from common knowledge; and of this kind, certainly, is technical navigation. Yet Dryden was of opinion that a seafight ought to be described in... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Lives of the poets - Page 319
by Samuel Johnson - 1825
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The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered

Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 308 pages
...slaughter; but all these are common notions. And certainly as those who, in a Logical dispute, keep in general terms, would hide a fallacy, so those who do it in any Poetical description would vail their ignorance . . . For my own part, if I had litde knowledge of the Sea, yet I have thought...
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The Major Works

John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...slaughter; but all these are common notions. And certainly as those who, in a logical dispute, keep in general terms, would hide a fallacy, so those who...any poetical description would veil their ignorance. descriptas servare vices opcrumque colores cur ego, si nequeo ignoroque, poeta saluinr? [if in my ignorance...
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Selected Poems

John Dryden - Poetry - 2002 - 612 pages
...slaughter, but all these are common notions. And certainly as those who, in a logical dispute, keep in go general terms would hide a fallacy, so those who do...any poetical description would veil their ignorance. Descriplas servare vices operumque colores Cur ego, si nequeo ignoroque, poela salutor? For my own...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 474 pages
...to 'tiiiiversal language; This rule is still stronger with regard to arts not liberal, or confined to few, and therefore far removed from common knowledge...this kind, certainly, is technical navigation. Yet Dry den was of opinion, that a sea-fight ought to b& described in the nautical knowledge •;•: "...
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The Illustrated naval and military magazine: A monthly journal ..., Volume 3

Military art and science - 1885 - 478 pages
...are used at sea; and, certainly," he adds, " as those in a logical dispute keep in general terms to hide a fallacy, so those who do it in any poetical description, would veil their ignorance." Again : " And as I am well satisfied that they are incomparably the best subjects " (the soldier-sailors,...
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United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Volume 40, Page 3

Military art and science - 1842 - 670 pages
...are used nt sea; and certainly," he adds, " as those in a logical dispute, keep ingenerai terms to hide a fallacy ; so those who do it in any poetical description, would veil their ignorance." Again, — " And, as I am well satisfied that they are incomparably the best subjects" (the soldier-sailors,...
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