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... they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete . He who writes much will not easily escape a manner - such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and 60 LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS.
... they have nothing yet uncouth or obsolete . He who writes much will not easily escape a manner - such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and 60 LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS.
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may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same ; he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other than that of expressing with clearness what he thinks with vigour .
may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same ; he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other than that of expressing with clearness what he thinks with vigour .
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... it had been less easily excused . Pope , in one of his letters , complaining of the treatment which his poem had found , " owns that such critics can intimidate him , nay , almost persuade him to write no more , which is a ...
... it had been less easily excused . Pope , in one of his letters , complaining of the treatment which his poem had found , " owns that such critics can intimidate him , nay , almost persuade him to write no more , which is a ...
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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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