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... Lycidas , ” are partly , but not en- tirely , the articulation of The Age of Johnson , rather than of only its master mind ; others of them are from his own deeply felt personal experience and painfully acquired wisdom ; and still ...
... Lycidas , ” are partly , but not en- tirely , the articulation of The Age of Johnson , rather than of only its master mind ; others of them are from his own deeply felt personal experience and painfully acquired wisdom ; and still ...
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... LYCIDAS " One of the poems on which much praise has been bestowed is Lycidas , of which the diction is harsh , the rhymes uncertain , and the numbers unpleasing . What beauty there is we must therefore seek in the sentiments and images ...
... LYCIDAS " One of the poems on which much praise has been bestowed is Lycidas , of which the diction is harsh , the rhymes uncertain , and the numbers unpleasing . What beauty there is we must therefore seek in the sentiments and images ...
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... Lycidas with pleasure had he not known its author . JOHNSON ON PARADISE LOST I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem which considered with respect to design , may claim the first place , and with respect to performance , the second ...
... Lycidas with pleasure had he not known its author . JOHNSON ON PARADISE LOST I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem which considered with respect to design , may claim the first place , and with respect to performance , the second ...
Contents
From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 A Gateway Edition Volume 83 of The World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Gateway Editions, 1955 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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