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If we produced any thing worthy of notice before the elegies of Milton , it was perhaps Alabaster's Roxana . Of these exercises which the rules of the University required , some were published by him in his maturer years .
If we produced any thing worthy of notice before the elegies of Milton , it was perhaps Alabaster's Roxana . Of these exercises which the rules of the University required , some were published by him in his maturer years .
Page 90
I cannot but remark a kind of respect , perhaps unconsciously , paid to this great man by his biographers : every house in which he resided is historically mentioned , as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured ...
I cannot but remark a kind of respect , perhaps unconsciously , paid to this great man by his biographers : every house in which he resided is historically mentioned , as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured ...
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It is therefore perhaps possible to give a better representation of that great satirist , even in those parts which Dryden himself has translated , some passages excepted , which will never be excelled . With Juvenal was published ...
It is therefore perhaps possible to give a better representation of that great satirist , even in those parts which Dryden himself has translated , some passages excepted , which will never be excelled . With Juvenal was published ...
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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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