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transpose his verse , but by the help of his own words transnonsense sense , that , by my stuff , people may judge the better what his is : a Great Boy , thy tragedy and sculptures done From press , and plates in fleets do homeward come ...
transpose his verse , but by the help of his own words transnonsense sense , that , by my stuff , people may judge the better what his is : a Great Boy , thy tragedy and sculptures done From press , and plates in fleets do homeward come ...
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These two lines , if he can shew me any sense or thought in , or any thing but bombast and noise , he shall make me believe every word in his observations on Morocco sense . ' In the Empress of Morocco were these lines : I'll travel ...
These two lines , if he can shew me any sense or thought in , or any thing but bombast and noise , he shall make me believe every word in his observations on Morocco sense . ' In the Empress of Morocco were these lines : I'll travel ...
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In one of Boileau's lines it was a question , whether he should use à rien faire , or à ne rien faire ; and the first was preferred , because it gave rien a sense in some sort positive . Nothing can be subject only in its positive sense ...
In one of Boileau's lines it was a question , whether he should use à rien faire , or à ne rien faire ; and the first was preferred , because it gave rien a sense in some sort positive . Nothing can be subject only in its positive sense ...
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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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