Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Samuel Johnson. gained a strong prevalence over his imagination , and upon whom nothing ever has been charged but imprudent piety , and intemperate and misguided zeal for the propagation of popery . However faithful Granville might have ...
Samuel Johnson. gained a strong prevalence over his imagination , and upon whom nothing ever has been charged but imprudent piety , and intemperate and misguided zeal for the propagation of popery . However faithful Granville might have ...
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... imagination of his examiners had impregnated with treason , and the doctor was enjoined to explain them . Thus pressed , he told them that the words had lain unheeded in his pocket - book from the time of queen Anne , and that he was ...
... imagination of his examiners had impregnated with treason , and the doctor was enjoined to explain them . Thus pressed , he told them that the words had lain unheeded in his pocket - book from the time of queen Anne , and that he was ...
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... imaginations ; and seldom appeared to be melancholy , but when some sudden mis- fortune had just fallen upon him , and even ... imagination ; and , as Sir Robert Walpole had before given him reason to believe that he never intended the ...
... imaginations ; and seldom appeared to be melancholy , but when some sudden mis- fortune had just fallen upon him , and even ... imagination ; and , as Sir Robert Walpole had before given him reason to believe that he never intended the ...
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