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Learning ( young virgin ) but few suitors knew ; The common prostitute she lately grew , And with the spurious brood loads now the press ; Laborious effects of idleness . As the ' Davideis ' affords only four books , though intended to ...
Learning ( young virgin ) but few suitors knew ; The common prostitute she lately grew , And with the spurious brood loads now the press ; Laborious effects of idleness . As the ' Davideis ' affords only four books , though intended to ...
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If these great innovations proceed , I shall expect a flat and level in learning too , as well as in church - preferments : Honos alit Artes . And though it be true , that grave and pious men do study for learning - sake , and embrace ...
If these great innovations proceed , I shall expect a flat and level in learning too , as well as in church - preferments : Honos alit Artes . And though it be true , that grave and pious men do study for learning - sake , and embrace ...
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He had mingled with the gay world , without exemption from its vices or its follies , but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first ...
He had mingled with the gay world , without exemption from its vices or its follies , but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first ...
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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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