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So light and so scanty is the knowledge which I have been able to collect concerning the private life and domestick manners of a man , whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet .
So light and so scanty is the knowledge which I have been able to collect concerning the private life and domestick manners of a man , whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet .
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in the English than in the Greek , which must be proved by comparing them , somewhat more equitably than Mr Rymer has done . ' After all , we need not yield that the English way is less conducing to move pity and terror , because they ...
in the English than in the Greek , which must be proved by comparing them , somewhat more equitably than Mr Rymer has done . ' After all , we need not yield that the English way is less conducing to move pity and terror , because they ...
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Robert Montagu |
| Publisher | Folio Society, 1965 |
| Length | 420 pages |
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