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Samuel Johnson. b LIVES NGLISH POLTS SAMUEL JOHNGas , LONDAY PUBLISHED BY JON 3. ALION PLACE K : COMPANY , 9 ° P 20AD , 1825 . : THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS ; BY SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Samuel Johnson. b LIVES NGLISH POLTS SAMUEL JOHNGas , LONDAY PUBLISHED BY JON 3. ALION PLACE K : COMPANY , 9 ° P 20AD , 1825 . : THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS ; BY SAMUEL JOHNSON.
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... published before 1633 , when Dr. Johnson , as well Cowley was fifteen years old . as former biographers , seems to have been misled by the portrait of Cowley being by mistake marked with the age of thirteen years .--- R . A In 1636 , he ...
... published before 1633 , when Dr. Johnson , as well Cowley was fifteen years old . as former biographers , seems to have been misled by the portrait of Cowley being by mistake marked with the age of thirteen years .--- R . A In 1636 , he ...
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... published till been sometime at Cambridge . This combad comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's ...
... published till been sometime at Cambridge . This combad comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's ...
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... published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words , contri- bute no otherwise to his reputation than as they show him to have been above the affecta- tion of ...
... published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words , contri- bute no otherwise to his reputation than as they show him to have been above the affecta- tion of ...
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... published a book of pro- fane and lascivious verses . From the charge of profaneness , the constant tenor of his life , which seems to have been eminently virtuous , and the general tendency of his opinions , which discover no ...
... published a book of pro- fane and lascivious verses . From the charge of profaneness , the constant tenor of his life , which seems to have been eminently virtuous , and the general tendency of his opinions , which discover no ...
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