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Page 103
That in the reigns of Charles and James the Paradise Lost received no publick acclamations , is readily confessed . Wit and literature were on the side of the Court and who that solicited favour or fashion would venture to praise the ...
That in the reigns of Charles and James the Paradise Lost received no publick acclamations , is readily confessed . Wit and literature were on the side of the Court and who that solicited favour or fashion would venture to praise the ...
Page 150
... disordered practice , and disturbed both publick and private quiet , in that age , when subordination was broken ... to the publick ; when every man might become a preacher , and almost every preacher could collect a congregation .
... disordered practice , and disturbed both publick and private quiet , in that age , when subordination was broken ... to the publick ; when every man might become a preacher , and almost every preacher could collect a congregation .
Page 419
His elegance of language , and variegation of prose and verse , however , gains upon the reader ; and the book , though a while neglected , became in time so much the favourite of the publick , that before it was reprinted it rose to ...
His elegance of language , and variegation of prose and verse , however , gains upon the reader ; and the book , though a while neglected , became in time so much the favourite of the publick , that before it was reprinted it rose to ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Volume 1 Volumes 770-771 of Everyman's Library Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Samuel Johnson Volume 84 of Worlds classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Frowde, 191? |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Feb 2019 |
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