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Page 71
For as in nature's swiftness , with the throng Of flying orbs while ours is borne along , All seems at rest to the deluded eye , Moy'd by the soul of the same harmony : So carried on by your unwearied care , We rest in peace , and yet ...
For as in nature's swiftness , with the throng Of flying orbs while ours is borne along , All seems at rest to the deluded eye , Moy'd by the soul of the same harmony : So carried on by your unwearied care , We rest in peace , and yet ...
Page 81
He seems to look round him for images which he cannot find , and what he has he distorts by endeavouring to enlarge them . “ He is , ” he says , “ petrified with grief , ” but the marble sometimes relents and trickles in a joke .
He seems to look round him for images which he cannot find , and what he has he distorts by endeavouring to enlarge them . “ He is , ” he says , “ petrified with grief , ” but the marble sometimes relents and trickles in a joke .
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Of this fortune , which , as it arose from public approbation , was very honourably obtained , his imagination seems to have been too full : it would be hard to find a man , so well entitled to notice by his wit , that ever delighted so ...
Of this fortune , which , as it arose from public approbation , was very honourably obtained , his imagination seems to have been too full : it would be hard to find a man , so well entitled to notice by his wit , that ever delighted so ...
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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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