The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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... EDITION . VOL . 418 . THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . 1 . LEIPZIG : BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ . PARIS : C. REINWALD , 15 , RUE DES SAINTS PÈRES . COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS . VOL . CCCCXVIII .
... EDITION . VOL . 418 . THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . 1 . LEIPZIG : BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ . PARIS : C. REINWALD , 15 , RUE DES SAINTS PÈRES . COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS . VOL . CCCCXVIII .
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Samuel Johnson. COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS . VOL . CCCCXVIII . JOHNSON'S LIVES . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS ; BY SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Samuel Johnson. COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS . VOL . CCCCXVIII . JOHNSON'S LIVES . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS ; BY SAMUEL JOHNSON.
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... poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to ... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a ...
... poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to ... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a ...
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... poetry . He composed in Latin several books on plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of flowers in various measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the ...
... poetry . He composed in Latin several books on plants , of which the first and second display the qualities of herbs , in elegiac verse ; the third and fourth , the beauties of flowers in various measures ; and the fifth and sixth , the ...
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Samuel Johnson. of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If ...
Samuel Johnson. of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If ...
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