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If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never ...
If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never ...
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easiness that he saw some , whose friendship he valued , change their behaviour , he yet observed their coldness without much emotion , considered them as the slaves of fortune and the worshippers of prosperity , and was more inclined ...
easiness that he saw some , whose friendship he valued , change their behaviour , he yet observed their coldness without much emotion , considered them as the slaves of fortune and the worshippers of prosperity , and was more inclined ...
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This has been too hastily considered as an instance of Addison's jealousy ; for as he could not guess the conduct of the new design , or the possibilities of pleasure comprised in a fiction of which there had been no examples , he might ...
This has been too hastily considered as an instance of Addison's jealousy ; for as he could not guess the conduct of the new design , or the possibilities of pleasure comprised in a fiction of which there had been no examples , he might ...
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Contents
Introduction | 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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