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Thus he gives him that pedantick ostentation of knowledge which has no relation to chivalry , and loads him with ... It is probable , that the hero was to be led through many luckless adventures , which would give occasion , like his ...
Thus he gives him that pedantick ostentation of knowledge which has no relation to chivalry , and loads him with ... It is probable , that the hero was to be led through many luckless adventures , which would give occasion , like his ...
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Ben Jonson thought it necessary to copy Horace almost word by word ; Feltham , his contemporary and adversary , considers it as indispensably requisite in a translation to give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden calls ...
Ben Jonson thought it necessary to copy Horace almost word by word ; Feltham , his contemporary and adversary , considers it as indispensably requisite in a translation to give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden calls ...
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When he was nineteen , he was by the death of his father left more to his own direction , and probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was ...
When he was nineteen , he was by the death of his father left more to his own direction , and probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was ...
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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 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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