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Lamb , writing of one of his own Sonnets in which occur the lines :My lov'd companion dropp'd a tear and fled , And hid in deepest shades her awful head , ' continues : —Since writing it , I have found in a poem by Hamilton of Bangor ...
Lamb , writing of one of his own Sonnets in which occur the lines :My lov'd companion dropp'd a tear and fled , And hid in deepest shades her awful head , ' continues : —Since writing it , I have found in a poem by Hamilton of Bangor ...
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Addison wrote about 240 Spectators , of about 112 lines to a number . In 92 weeks he wrote , roughly speaking , 26,680 lines , or 292 lines a week . Johnson wrote 203 Ramblers in 103 weeks , which , at 167 lines to a number ...
Addison wrote about 240 Spectators , of about 112 lines to a number . In 92 weeks he wrote , roughly speaking , 26,680 lines , or 292 lines a week . Johnson wrote 203 Ramblers in 103 weeks , which , at 167 lines to a number ...
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The last line in succeeding editions was shortened , and the order of names continued ; but now Milton is at last ... but there are , after all the emendations , many weak lines and some strange appearances of negligence ; as when he ...
The last line in succeeding editions was shortened , and the order of names continued ; but now Milton is at last ... but there are , after all the emendations , many weak lines and some strange appearances of negligence ; as when he ...
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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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