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5 It is with regret that I find myself not better enabled to exhibit memorials of a writer , who at least must be allowed to have set a good example to men of his own class by devoting part of his time to elegant knowledge , and who has ...
5 It is with regret that I find myself not better enabled to exhibit memorials of a writer , who at least must be allowed to have set a good example to men of his own class by devoting part of his time to elegant knowledge , and who has ...
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To this poem praise cannot be totally denied . He is allowed by sportsmen to write with great intelligence of his subject , which is the first requisite to excellence ; and though it is impossible to interest the common ...
To this poem praise cannot be totally denied . He is allowed by sportsmen to write with great intelligence of his subject , which is the first requisite to excellence ; and though it is impossible to interest the common ...
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... must be allowed to be an instance of uncommon generosity , an act of complicated virtue ; by which he at once relieved the poor , corrected the vicious , and forgave an enemy ; by which he at once remitted the strongest provocations ...
... must be allowed to be an instance of uncommon generosity , an act of complicated virtue ; by which he at once relieved the poor , corrected the vicious , and forgave an enemy ; by which he at once remitted the strongest provocations ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets: Smith-Savage Volume 2 of Lives of the English Poets, George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Octagon Books, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 8 Mar 2008 |
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