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... including ADDISON , STEELE , DR . JOHNSON , POPE , GOLDSMITH , SWIFT , WATTS , BACON , & c . WORLD , The SPECTATOR , TATLER and GUARDIAN will be complete in 60 Numbers , at 6d . forming 2 elegant volumes , containing the whole of ...
... including ADDISON , STEELE , DR . JOHNSON , POPE , GOLDSMITH , SWIFT , WATTS , BACON , & c . WORLD , The SPECTATOR , TATLER and GUARDIAN will be complete in 60 Numbers , at 6d . forming 2 elegant volumes , containing the whole of ...
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COWLEY DENHAM MILTON BUTLER ROCHESTER ROSCOMMON OTWAY WALLER POMFRET DORSET STEPNEY J. PHILIPS WALSH DRYDEN SMITH DUKE KING SPRAT HALIFAX PARNELL GARTH ROWE • · • ADDISON HUGHES SHEFFIELD PRIOR • • • · • · • • · · CONTENT S.
COWLEY DENHAM MILTON BUTLER ROCHESTER ROSCOMMON OTWAY WALLER POMFRET DORSET STEPNEY J. PHILIPS WALSH DRYDEN SMITH DUKE KING SPRAT HALIFAX PARNELL GARTH ROWE • · • ADDISON HUGHES SHEFFIELD PRIOR • • • · • · • • · · CONTENT S.
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The principal artifice by which The Mistress is filled with conceits , is very copiously displayed by Addison . Love is by Cowley , as by other poets , expressed metaphorically by flame and fire ; and that which is true of real fire ...
The principal artifice by which The Mistress is filled with conceits , is very copiously displayed by Addison . Love is by Cowley , as by other poets , expressed metaphorically by flame and fire ; and that which is true of real fire ...
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The same attempt was made to rob Addison of Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him to engage in more dangerous employments . He was entrusted by the Queen with a message to ...
The same attempt was made to rob Addison of Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him to engage in more dangerous employments . He was entrusted by the Queen with a message to ...
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To this gentlewoman Addison made a present , and promised some establishment , but died soon after . Queen Caroline sent her fifty guineas . She had seven sons and three daughters ; but none of them had any children , except her son ...
To this gentlewoman Addison made a present , and promised some establishment , but died soon after . Queen Caroline sent her fifty guineas . She had seven sons and three daughters ; but none of them had any children , except her son ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Jones & Company, 1825 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Mar 2009 |
| Length | 363 pages |
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