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Page 98
This darkness , had his eyes been better employed , had undoubtedly deserved compassion : but to add the mention of danger was ungrateful and unjust . He was fallen indeed on evil days ; the time was come in which regicides could no ...
This darkness , had his eyes been better employed , had undoubtedly deserved compassion : but to add the mention of danger was ungrateful and unjust . He was fallen indeed on evil days ; the time was come in which regicides could no ...
Page 281
The writer who thinks his works formed for duration , mistakes his interest when he mentions his enemies . He degrades his own dignity by ... Of Collier , Blackmore , and Milbourne , he has made mention in the preface of his Fables .
The writer who thinks his works formed for duration , mistakes his interest when he mentions his enemies . He degrades his own dignity by ... Of Collier , Blackmore , and Milbourne , he has made mention in the preface of his Fables .
Page 445
Of Addison's smaller poems , no particular mention is necessary ; they have little that can employ or require a critick . The parallel of the Princes and Gods , in his verses to Kneller , is often happy , but is too well known to be ...
Of Addison's smaller poems , no particular mention is necessary ; they have little that can employ or require a critick . The parallel of the Princes and Gods , in his verses to Kneller , is often happy , but is too well known to be ...
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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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