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It might be hoped that the favour of his master and esteem of the publick would now make him happy . But human felicity is short and uncertain ; a second marriage brought upon him so much disquiet , as for a time disordered his ...
It might be hoped that the favour of his master and esteem of the publick would now make him happy . But human felicity is short and uncertain ; a second marriage brought upon him so much disquiet , as for a time disordered his ...
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But has the case been truly stated ? Have not lamentation and wonder been lavished on an evil that was never felt ? That in the reigns of Charles and James the Paradise Lost received no publick acclamations , is readily confessed .
But has the case been truly stated ? Have not lamentation and wonder been lavished on an evil that was never felt ? That in the reigns of Charles and James the Paradise Lost received no publick acclamations , is readily confessed .
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in time so much the favourite of the publick , that before it was reprinted it rose to five times its price . When hereturned to England ( in 1702 ) , with a meanness of appearance which gave testimony of the difficulties to which he ...
in time so much the favourite of the publick , that before it was reprinted it rose to five times its price . When hereturned to England ( in 1702 ) , with a meanness of appearance which gave testimony of the difficulties to which he ...
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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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