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Samuel Johnson. LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS ; BY SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL . D. IN TWO VOLS . VOL . II . LONDON : Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington ; J. Nunn ; Cadell and Davies ; Longman , Hurst , Rees , Orme , and Brown ; G. & W. B. ...
Samuel Johnson. LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS ; BY SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL . D. IN TWO VOLS . VOL . II . LONDON : Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington ; J. Nunn ; Cadell and Davies ; Longman , Hurst , Rees , Orme , and Brown ; G. & W. B. ...
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Samuel Johnson. 5 much veracity as can be properly exacted from a poet professedly encomiastic . King William sup- plied copious materials for either verse or prose . His whole life had been action , and none ever denied him the ...
Samuel Johnson. 5 much veracity as can be properly exacted from a poet professedly encomiastic . King William sup- plied copious materials for either verse or prose . His whole life had been action , and none ever denied him the ...
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... poets . " Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It is related by Boyer , that the intention was to have joined Prior in the commission , but that Shrewsbury refused to be as- sociated with a man so ...
... poets . " Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It is related by Boyer , that the intention was to have joined Prior in the commission , but that Shrewsbury refused to be as- sociated with a man so ...
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... : Mais cette voix , et ces beaux yeux , Font Cupidon trop dangereux ; Et je suis triste quand je crie , Bannissons la Melancholie . Tradition represents him as willing to descend from the dignity of the poet and statesman to the PRIOR .
... : Mais cette voix , et ces beaux yeux , Font Cupidon trop dangereux ; Et je suis triste quand je crie , Bannissons la Melancholie . Tradition represents him as willing to descend from the dignity of the poet and statesman to the PRIOR .
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Samuel Johnson. from the dignity of the poet and statesman to the low delights of mean company . His Chloe proba- bly was sometimes ideal ; but the woman with whom he cohabited was a despicable drab of the lowest species . One of his ...
Samuel Johnson. from the dignity of the poet and statesman to the low delights of mean company . His Chloe proba- bly was sometimes ideal ; but the woman with whom he cohabited was a despicable drab of the lowest species . One of his ...
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