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There is perhaps no poem , of the same length , from which so little can be taken without apparent mutilation . Here are no funeral games , nor is there any long description of a shield . The short digressions at the beginning of the ...
There is perhaps no poem , of the same length , from which so little can be taken without apparent mutilation . Here are no funeral games , nor is there any long description of a shield . The short digressions at the beginning of the ...
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Of this poem , in which personal satire was applied to the support of publick principles , and in which therefore every mind was interested , the reception was eager , and the sale so large , that my father , an old bookseller , told me ...
Of this poem , in which personal satire was applied to the support of publick principles , and in which therefore every mind was interested , the reception was eager , and the sale so large , that my father , an old bookseller , told me ...
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In this poem Pope seems to reckon with the publick . He vindicates himself from censures ; and with dignity , rather than arrogance , enforces his own claims to kindness and respect . Into this poem are interwoven several paragraphs ...
In this poem Pope seems to reckon with the publick . He vindicates himself from censures ; and with dignity , rather than arrogance , enforces his own claims to kindness and respect . Into this poem are interwoven several paragraphs ...
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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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