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In the year 1647 , his “ Mistress ” was published ; for he imagined , as he
declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that “ poets are scarcely thought
freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to
be true ...
In the year 1647 , his “ Mistress ” was published ; for he imagined , as he
declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that “ poets are scarcely thought
freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to
be true ...
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At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in transacting things of
real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much
employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters to Mr .
Bennett ...
At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in transacting things of
real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much
employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters to Mr .
Bennett ...
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Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their
language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity ... having , by such alteration as
he thought proper , fitted his old comedy of “ The Guardian ” for the stage , he
produced it ...
Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their
language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity ... having , by such alteration as
he thought proper , fitted his old comedy of “ The Guardian ” for the stage , he
produced it ...
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Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making apologies for his bad play ;
Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say :
Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had ...
Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making apologies for his bad play ;
Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say :
Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had ...
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If wit be well described by Pope , as being “ that which has been often thought ,
but was never before so well expressed , " they certainly never attained , nor ever
sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were ...
If wit be well described by Pope , as being “ that which has been often thought ,
but was never before so well expressed , " they certainly never attained , nor ever
sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were ...
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Collection of British and American Authors Collection of British authors Volumes 418-419 of Collection of British authors, Tauchnitz edition Volume 418 of Tauchnitz edition The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
| Original from | Barcelona Athenaeum Library |
| Digitized | 22 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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