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Samuel Johnson. COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS . VOL . CCCCXVIII . JOHNSON'S LIVES . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. SEU TENE R 1 THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS ; BY SAMUEL.
Samuel Johnson. COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS . VOL . CCCCXVIII . JOHNSON'S LIVES . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. SEU TENE R 1 THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS ; BY SAMUEL.
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... English biography , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has ...
... English biography , has been written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has ...
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... poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to ... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a ...
... poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to ... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a ...
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... poetry . He composed in Latin several books on plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of flowers in various measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the ...
... poetry . He composed in Latin several books on plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of flowers in various measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the ...
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Samuel Johnson. of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If ...
Samuel Johnson. of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If ...
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