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By this abruption , posterity lost more instruction than delight . If the continuation of the ' Davideis ' can be missed , it is for the learning that has been diffused over it , and the notes in which it had been explained .
By this abruption , posterity lost more instruction than delight . If the continuation of the ' Davideis ' can be missed , it is for the learning that has been diffused over it , and the notes in which it had been explained .
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Those who are not convinced by his reasons , may be perhaps delighted with his wit . ... In the last year of his life he sent to the press , seeming to take delight in publication , a collection of Familiar Epistles in Latin ; to which ...
Those who are not convinced by his reasons , may be perhaps delighted with his wit . ... In the last year of his life he sent to the press , seeming to take delight in publication , a collection of Familiar Epistles in Latin ; to which ...
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Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes ...
Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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