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At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities , he naturally expected ample preferments ; and , that he might not be ...
At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities , he naturally expected ample preferments ; and , that he might not be ...
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Such a society might , perhaps , without much difficulty , be collected ; but that it would produce what is expected from it , may be doubted . The Italian academy seems to have obtained its end . The language was refined , and so fixed ...
Such a society might , perhaps , without much difficulty , be collected ; but that it would produce what is expected from it , may be doubted . The Italian academy seems to have obtained its end . The language was refined , and so fixed ...
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And Oldmixon delights to tell of some alderman of London , that he had more money than the exiled princes ; but that which might be expected from Milton's savage- ness , or Oldmixon's meanness , was not suitable to the delicacy of ...
And Oldmixon delights to tell of some alderman of London , that he had more money than the exiled princes ; but that which might be expected from Milton's savage- ness , or Oldmixon's meanness , was not suitable to the delicacy of ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of Oxford world's classics Issues 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1952 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2009 |
| Length | 472 pages |
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