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I finished the Lives of the Poets , which I wrote in my usual way , dilatorily and hastily , unwilling to work , and working with vigour and haste . ' It is the common burthen of man ' s working - day ...
I finished the Lives of the Poets , which I wrote in my usual way , dilatorily and hastily , unwilling to work , and working with vigour and haste . ' It is the common burthen of man ' s working - day ...
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To the compleatness or integrity of the design nothing can be objected ; it has distinctly and clearly what Aristotle requires , a beginning , a middle , and an end . There is perhaps no poem , of the same length , from which so little ...
To the compleatness or integrity of the design nothing can be objected ; it has distinctly and clearly what Aristotle requires , a beginning , a middle , and an end . There is perhaps no poem , of the same length , from which so little ...
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To the poem on Cider , written in imitation of the ' Georgicks , may be given this peculiar praise , that it is grounded in truth ; that the precepts which it contains are exact and just ; and that it is therefore , at once , a book of ...
To the poem on Cider , written in imitation of the ' Georgicks , may be given this peculiar praise , that it is grounded in truth ; that the precepts which it contains are exact and just ; and that it is therefore , at once , a book of ...
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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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