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Such are the revolutions of fame , or such is the prevalence of fashion , that the
man whose works have not yet been thought to deserve the care of collecting
them , who died forgotten in an hospital , and whose latter years were spent in ...
Such are the revolutions of fame , or such is the prevalence of fashion , that the
man whose works have not yet been thought to deserve the care of collecting
them , who died forgotten in an hospital , and whose latter years were spent in ...
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He has been described as magisterially presiding over the younger writers , and
assuming the distribution of poetical famne ; but he who excels has a right to
teach , and he whose judgement is incontestable may without usurpation
examine ...
He has been described as magisterially presiding over the younger writers , and
assuming the distribution of poetical famne ; but he who excels has a right to
teach , and he whose judgement is incontestable may without usurpation
examine ...
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... at whose fear'd stroke From rending earth the fiery courser broke , Great
Neptune , O affist my artful song , And thou to whom the woods and groves
belong , Whose snowy heifers on her flow'ry plains In mighty herds the Cæan Isle
maintains ...
... at whose fear'd stroke From rending earth the fiery courser broke , Great
Neptune , O affist my artful song , And thou to whom the woods and groves
belong , Whose snowy heifers on her flow'ry plains In mighty herds the Cæan Isle
maintains ...
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Steele , whose imprudence of generofity , or vanity of profusion , kept him always
incurably necessitous , upon some pressing exigence , in an evil hour , borrowed
an hundred pounds of his friend , probably without much purpose of repayment ...
Steele , whose imprudence of generofity , or vanity of profusion , kept him always
incurably necessitous , upon some pressing exigence , in an evil hour , borrowed
an hundred pounds of his friend , probably without much purpose of repayment ...
Page 373
earl of Oxford , was to introduce an aristo cracy ; for a majority in the house of
lords , fo limited , would have been despotick and irrefistible , To prevent this
subversion of the ancient establishment , Steele , whose pen readily seconded
his ...
earl of Oxford , was to introduce an aristo cracy ; for a majority in the house of
lords , fo limited , would have been despotick and irrefistible , To prevent this
subversion of the ancient establishment , Steele , whose pen readily seconded
his ...
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets; and a criticism on their works, Volume 2 The Lives of the English Poets; and a criticism on their works, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1750 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2019 |
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