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It is not very unlikely that he wrote very early as well as he ever wrote ; and the performances of youth have many favourers , because the authors yet lay no claim to publick honours . and are ...
It is not very unlikely that he wrote very early as well as he ever wrote ; and the performances of youth have many favourers , because the authors yet lay no claim to publick honours . and are ...
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duced soon after the Restoration , as it seems , by the carl of Orrery , in compliance with the opinion of Charles the Second , who had formed his taste by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of ...
duced soon after the Restoration , as it seems , by the carl of Orrery , in compliance with the opinion of Charles the Second , who had formed his taste by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of ...
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Here he wrote Mully of Mountown , a poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's ...
Here he wrote Mully of Mountown , a poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's ...
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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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