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rs that can be the highest kind of writing in verse , which , according to Sprat , is chiefly to be preferred for its ... all the boys and girls caught the pleasing fashion , and they that could do nothing else could write like Pindar .
rs that can be the highest kind of writing in verse , which , according to Sprat , is chiefly to be preferred for its ... all the boys and girls caught the pleasing fashion , and they that could do nothing else could write like Pindar .
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... as his expedition in writing was wonderful , in 1649 published Defensio Regis . To this Milton was required to write a sufficient answer ; which he performed ( 1651 ) in such a manner , that Hobbes declared himself unable to decide ...
... as his expedition in writing was wonderful , in 1649 published Defensio Regis . To this Milton was required to write a sufficient answer ; which he performed ( 1651 ) in such a manner , that Hobbes declared himself unable to decide ...
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... Augustus that desire him to write them , preserved them from destruction . scribbling beau may imagine a Poet may be induced write , by the very pleasure he finds in writing ; but that seldom , when people are necessitated to it .
... Augustus that desire him to write them , preserved them from destruction . scribbling beau may imagine a Poet may be induced write , by the very pleasure he finds in writing ; but that seldom , when people are necessitated to it .
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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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