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... honour of his country . Considering Botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate operations of the intellect , Botany in the mind of ...
... honour of his country . Considering Botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate operations of the intellect , Botany in the mind of ...
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... honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and no woman whore ; Yet why should hallow'd vestal's sacred shrine Deserve more honour than a flaming mine ? These ...
... honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and no woman whore ; Yet why should hallow'd vestal's sacred shrine Deserve more honour than a flaming mine ? These ...
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... honour to his memory . Milton's acquaintance with the Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malig- nity to the Church by some lines which are ...
... honour to his memory . Milton's acquaintance with the Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malig- nity to the Church by some lines which are ...
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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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