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By the Spectator it has once been quoted , by Rymer it has once been praised , and by Dryden , in Mac Flecknoe , it has once been imitated ; nor do I recollect much other notice from its publication till now , in the whole succession of ...
By the Spectator it has once been quoted , by Rymer it has once been praised , and by Dryden , in Mac Flecknoe , it has once been imitated ; nor do I recollect much other notice from its publication till now , in the whole succession of ...
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... following Letter , which I communicate with much pleasure , as it gives me at once an opportunity of recording the fraternal kindness of Thomson , and reflecting on the friendly assistance of Mr Boswell , from whom I received it .
... following Letter , which I communicate with much pleasure , as it gives me at once an opportunity of recording the fraternal kindness of Thomson , and reflecting on the friendly assistance of Mr Boswell , from whom I received it .
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He was once reading to Doddington , who , being himself a reader eminently elegant , was so much provoked by his odd utterance , that he snatched the paper from his hand , and told him that he did not understand his own verses .
He was once reading to Doddington , who , being himself a reader eminently elegant , was so much provoked by his odd utterance , that he snatched the paper from his hand , and told him that he did not understand his own verses .
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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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