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So slight and so scanty is the knowledge which I have been able to collect concerning the private life and domestick manners of a man , whom every English genera- tion must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet .
So slight and so scanty is the knowledge which I have been able to collect concerning the private life and domestick manners of a man , whom every English genera- tion must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet .
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For the fable itself ; ' tis in the English more adorned with episodes , and larger than in the Greek poets ; consequently more diverting . For , if the action be but one , and that plain , without any counterturn of design or episode ...
For the fable itself ; ' tis in the English more adorned with episodes , and larger than in the Greek poets ; consequently more diverting . For , if the action be but one , and that plain , without any counterturn of design or episode ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volume 83 of Oxford world's classics Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1906 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 493 pages |
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