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Samuel Johnson. COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS . VOL . CCCCXVIII . JOHNSON'S LIVES . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. SEU TENE R 1 THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS ; BY SAMUEL.
Samuel Johnson. COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS . VOL . CCCCXVIII . JOHNSON'S LIVES . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. SEU TENE R 1 THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS ; BY SAMUEL.
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... poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to ... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a ...
... poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to ... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a ...
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... England , that " under pretence of privacy and retirement , he might take occasion of giving notice of the posture of things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London , he was seized by some messengers of the usurping powers ...
... England , that " under pretence of privacy and retirement , he might take occasion of giving notice of the posture of things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London , he was seized by some messengers of the usurping powers ...
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Samuel Johnson. of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If ...
Samuel Johnson. of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If ...
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... England . " He is represented by Dr. Sprat as the most amiable of mankind ... poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual ... poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the ...
... England . " He is represented by Dr. Sprat as the most amiable of mankind ... poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual ... poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the ...
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