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Page 128
... ment , speak of their friends and benefactors with levity and contempt , though in their cooler moments they want neither sense of their kindness nor rever- ence for their virtue . The fault therefore of Mr. Savage was rather negligence ...
... ment , speak of their friends and benefactors with levity and contempt , though in their cooler moments they want neither sense of their kindness nor rever- ence for their virtue . The fault therefore of Mr. Savage was rather negligence ...
Page 195
... subversion of all economy , a kind of establish- ment which , wherever he went , he always appeared ambitious to overthrow . It must therefore be acknowledged , in justification of mankind LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS 195.
... subversion of all economy , a kind of establish- ment which , wherever he went , he always appeared ambitious to overthrow . It must therefore be acknowledged , in justification of mankind LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS 195.
Page 388
... ment is right . There is in The Bard more force , more thought , and more variety . But to copy is less than to invent , and the copy has been unhappily produced at a wrong time . The fiction of Horace was to the Romans credible ; but ...
... ment is right . There is in The Bard more force , more thought , and more variety . But to copy is less than to invent , and the copy has been unhappily produced at a wrong time . The fiction of Horace was to the Romans credible ; but ...
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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Bibliographic information
| 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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