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There prevailed in his time an opinion that the world was in its decay , and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of Nature . It was suspected that the whole creation languished , that neither trees nor ...
There prevailed in his time an opinion that the world was in its decay , and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of Nature . It was suspected that the whole creation languished , that neither trees nor ...
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And such has been the change of publick opinion , ' said Dr Gregory , from whom I heard this account , ' that I have seen erected in the church a statue of that man , whose name I once knew considered as a pollution of its walls .
And such has been the change of publick opinion , ' said Dr Gregory , from whom I heard this account , ' that I have seen erected in the church a statue of that man , whose name I once knew considered as a pollution of its walls .
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The Assignation , or Love in a Nunnery , a comedy , was driven off the stage , against the opinion , as the author says , of the best judges . It is dedicated , in a very elegant address , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he finds an ...
The Assignation , or Love in a Nunnery , a comedy , was driven off the stage , against the opinion , as the author says , of the best judges . It is dedicated , in a very elegant address , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he finds an ...
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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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