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He was wont , says Sprat , to relate , " That he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " This is an instance of the natural desire of man to ...
He was wont , says Sprat , to relate , " That he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " This is an instance of the natural desire of man to ...
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N . In the first edition of this Life , Dr. Johnson wrote , " which was never inserted in any collection of his works ; " but he altered the expression when the Lives were collected into volumes . The satire was added to Cowley's Works ...
N . In the first edition of this Life , Dr. Johnson wrote , " which was never inserted in any collection of his works ; " but he altered the expression when the Lives were collected into volumes . The satire was added to Cowley's Works ...
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He is represented by Dr. Sprat as the most amiable of mankind ; and this posthumous praise may safely be credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to show ...
He is represented by Dr. Sprat as the most amiable of mankind ; and this posthumous praise may safely be credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to show ...
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Their wish was only ness of sentiment . to say what they hoped had never been said before . ; 1 This kind of writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man ...
Their wish was only ness of sentiment . to say what they hoped had never been said before . ; 1 This kind of writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man ...
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If the continu- is never pathetic , and rarely sublime ; but alation of the Davideis can be missed , it is for the ways either ingenious or learned , either acute or learning that had been diffused over it , and the profound . notes in ...
If the continu- is never pathetic , and rarely sublime ; but alation of the Davideis can be missed , it is for the ways either ingenious or learned , either acute or learning that had been diffused over it , and the profound . notes in ...
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| 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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