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In the Preface he tells that his Letters were reposited in a friend's library , said to be the Earl of Oxford's , and that the copy thence stolen was sent to the press . The story was doubtless received with different degrees of credit ...
In the Preface he tells that his Letters were reposited in a friend's library , said to be the Earl of Oxford's , and that the copy thence stolen was sent to the press . The story was doubtless received with different degrees of credit ...
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When this poem was first published , the dialogue , having no letters of direction , † was perplexed and obscure . Pope seems to have written with no very distinct idea ; for he calls that an Epistle to Bathurst , in which Bathurst is ...
When this poem was first published , the dialogue , having no letters of direction , † was perplexed and obscure . Pope seems to have written with no very distinct idea ; for he calls that an Epistle to Bathurst , in which Bathurst is ...
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Of his social qualities , if an estimate be made from his Letters , an opinion too favourable cannot easily be formed ; they exhibit a perpetual and unclouded effulgence of general benevolence , and particular fondness .
Of his social qualities , if an estimate be made from his Letters , an opinion too favourable cannot easily be formed ; they exhibit a perpetual and unclouded effulgence of general benevolence , and particular fondness .
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Introduction | 5 |
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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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