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Milton , being now cleared from all effects of his disloyalty , had nothing required from him but the common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of protection : but this , which , when he sculked from the ...
Milton , being now cleared from all effects of his disloyalty , had nothing required from him but the common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of protection : but this , which , when he sculked from the ...
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... Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition .
... Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition .
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Cowley was , I believe , the first poet that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the common heroick of ten syllables , and from him Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve ...
Cowley was , I believe , the first poet that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the common heroick of ten syllables , and from him Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve ...
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Contents
Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
Copyright | |
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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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