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Page 34
The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit,
or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they
turn the mind only on the writer, whom, without thinking on a woman but as the ...
The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit,
or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they
turn the mind only on the writer, whom, without thinking on a woman but as the ...
Page 346
Hence it was, that, though he writ as young as Cowley, he had no puerilities; and
his earliest productions were so far from having any thing in them mean and
trifling, that, like the junior compositions of Mr. Stepney, they may make grey
authors ...
Hence it was, that, though he writ as young as Cowley, he had no puerilities; and
his earliest productions were so far from having any thing in them mean and
trifling, that, like the junior compositions of Mr. Stepney, they may make grey
authors ...
Page 365
He appears from his writings to have been not ill qualified for poetical
compositions; and being conscious of his powers, when he left the university he
enlisted himself among the wits. He was the familiar friend of Otway; and was
engaged, ...
He appears from his writings to have been not ill qualified for poetical
compositions; and being conscious of his powers, when he left the university he
enlisted himself among the wits. He was the familiar friend of Otway; and was
engaged, ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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