Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Samuel Johnson. the plan , if not wholly new , was little understood by common readers . Many of the allusions required ... common newspapers ( in most of which they had some property , as being hired writers ) were filled with the most ...
Samuel Johnson. the plan , if not wholly new , was little understood by common readers . Many of the allusions required ... common newspapers ( in most of which they had some property , as being hired writers ) were filled with the most ...
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... common life , sometimes vexed , and sometimes pleased , with the natural emotions of common men . His scorn of the Great is repeated too often to be real ; no man thinks much of that which he despises ; and as falsehood is always in ...
... common life , sometimes vexed , and sometimes pleased , with the natural emotions of common men . His scorn of the Great is repeated too often to be real ; no man thinks much of that which he despises ; and as falsehood is always in ...
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... common promises of future excellence , undertook to superintend his education , and provide him books . He was taught the common rudiments of learning at the school of Jedburg , a place which he delights to recollect in his poem of ...
... common promises of future excellence , undertook to superintend his education , and provide him books . He was taught the common rudiments of learning at the school of Jedburg , a place which he delights to recollect in his poem of ...
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