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It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious ... A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others , an intellectual digestion that concocted the pulp of ...
It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious ... A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others , an intellectual digestion that concocted the pulp of ...
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At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermin , he was engaged in transacting things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry .
At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermin , he was engaged in transacting things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry .
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New things are made familiar , and familiar things are made new . ... day is here brought before us invested with so much art of decoration , that , though nothing is disguised , every thing is striking , and we feel all the appetite of ...
New things are made familiar , and familiar things are made new . ... day is here brought before us invested with so much art of decoration , that , though nothing is disguised , every thing is striking , and we feel all the appetite of ...
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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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