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He began with no happy auguries ; for his performance was so much disapproved , that he was compelled to recall it ... or tracing the meanders of his mind through the whole series of his dramatick performances ; it will be fit ...
He began with no happy auguries ; for his performance was so much disapproved , that he was compelled to recall it ... or tracing the meanders of his mind through the whole series of his dramatick performances ; it will be fit ...
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His first performance was a novel , called Incognita , or Love and Duty reconciled . It is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is indeed , for such a time of life , uncommonly judicious .
His first performance was a novel , called Incognita , or Love and Duty reconciled . It is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is indeed , for such a time of life , uncommonly judicious .
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The terms which Fenton uses are very mercantile : I think at first sight that his performance is very commendable , and. * Dacier , Madame Anne Dacier ( 1651-1720 ) , a distinguished French classical scholar , had translated the Iliad ...
The terms which Fenton uses are very mercantile : I think at first sight that his performance is very commendable , and. * Dacier , Madame Anne Dacier ( 1651-1720 ) , a distinguished French classical scholar , had translated the Iliad ...
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Introduction | 5 |
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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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