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... Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attain- ment , but above their ambition .
... Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attain- ment , but above their ambition .
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Milton , being now cleared from all effects of his disloyalty , had nothing required from him but the common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of protection : but this , which , when he sculked from the ...
Milton , being now cleared from all effects of his disloyalty , had nothing required from him but the common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of protection : but this , which , when he sculked from the ...
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His songs have no particular character : they tell , like other songs , in smooth and easy language , of scorn and kindness , dismission and desertion , absence and inconstancy , with the common places of artificial courtship .
His songs have no particular character : they tell , like other songs , in smooth and easy language , of scorn and kindness , dismission and desertion , absence and inconstancy , with the common places of artificial courtship .
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics World's classics, LXXXIII, LXXXIV |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1926 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 2 Feb 2009 |
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