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His conversation , wit , and parts , His knowledge in the noblest useful arts , Were such , dead authors could not give , But habitudes of those that live ; Who , lighting him , did greater lights receive : He drain'd from all , and all ...
His conversation , wit , and parts , His knowledge in the noblest useful arts , Were such , dead authors could not give , But habitudes of those that live ; Who , lighting him , did greater lights receive : He drain'd from all , and all ...
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a indispensably requisite in a translation to give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden calls the best versifier of the last age , has struggled hard to comprise every book of his English Metamorphoses in the same number ...
a indispensably requisite in a translation to give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden calls the best versifier of the last age , has struggled hard to comprise every book of his English Metamorphoses in the same number ...
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to ' To give the glory of this away from the poet , and to place it upon the actors , seems unjust . ' One reason is , because whatever actors they have found , the event has been the same ; that is , the same passions have been always ...
to ' To give the glory of this away from the poet , and to place it upon the actors , seems unjust . ' One reason is , because whatever actors they have found , the event has been the same ; that is , the same passions have been always ...
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Contents
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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