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At the same time were produced from the same university , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their ...
At the same time were produced from the same university , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their ...
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There are not many examples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read , and generally praised , that has crept through a century with so little regard .
There are not many examples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read , and generally praised , that has crept through a century with so little regard .
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To this antiquity was so attentive , that circumstances were sometimes added , which , having no parallels , served only to fill the imagination , and produced what Perrault ludicrously called comparisons with a long tail .
To this antiquity was so attentive , that circumstances were sometimes added , which , having no parallels , served only to fill the imagination , and produced what Perrault ludicrously called comparisons with a long tail .
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Contents
Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Robert Montagu |
| Publisher | Folio Society, 1965 |
| Length | 420 pages |
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