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The good and evil of Eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit ; the mind sinks under them in passive helplessness , content with calm belief and humble adoration . Known truths , however , may take a different appearance , and be ...
The good and evil of Eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit ; the mind sinks under them in passive helplessness , content with calm belief and humble adoration . Known truths , however , may take a different appearance , and be ...
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In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion , a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action ...
In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion , a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action ...
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His mind has a larger range , and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science . Dryden knew more of man in his general nature , and Pope in his local manners . The notions of Dryden were ...
His mind has a larger range , and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science . Dryden knew more of man in his general nature , and Pope in his local manners . The notions of Dryden were ...
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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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