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To write on their plan , it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphysical poet , nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imitations borrowed from imitations ...
To write on their plan , it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphysical poet , nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imitations borrowed from imitations ...
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I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me , and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice . He was of an advanced age , and I was only not a boy ; yet he never received my ...
I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me , and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice . He was of an advanced age , and I was only not a boy ; yet he never received my ...
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One was , that the wind of a cannon - bullet , though flying never so near , is incapable of doing the least harm ; and , indeed , were it otherwise , no man above deck would escape . The other was , that a great shot may be sometimes ...
One was , that the wind of a cannon - bullet , though flying never so near , is incapable of doing the least harm ; and , indeed , were it otherwise , no man above deck would escape . The other was , that a great shot may be sometimes ...
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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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