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These petty performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more probably took his hint from Trisino's Italia Liberata ; and , finding blank verse easier than rhyme , was desirous of persuading him' f that it is ...
These petty performances cannot be supposed to have much influenced Milton , who more probably took his hint from Trisino's Italia Liberata ; and , finding blank verse easier than rhyme , was desirous of persuading him' f that it is ...
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Smith took his Master's degree on the 8th fr of July 1696 : he therefore was probably admitted into ve the university in 1689 , when we may suppose him twenty years old . de His reputation for literature in his college was such as has ...
Smith took his Master's degree on the 8th fr of July 1696 : he therefore was probably admitted into ve the university in 1689 , when we may suppose him twenty years old . de His reputation for literature in his college was such as has ...
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When he was nineteen , he was by the death of his father left more to his own direction , and probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was ...
When he was nineteen , he was by the death of his father left more to his own direction , and probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was ...
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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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