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A coal-pit has not often found its poet; but, that it may not want its due honour,
Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun: The moderate value of our guiltless ore
Makes no man atheist, and no woman whore; Yet why should hallow'd vestal's ...
A coal-pit has not often found its poet; but, that it may not want its due honour,
Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun: The moderate value of our guiltless ore
Makes no man atheist, and no woman whore; Yet why should hallow'd vestal's ...
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1634; and had the honour of being acted by the Earl of Bridgewater's sons and
daughter. The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe; but we never can refuse to
any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : 1 a quo ceu fonte perenni
Vatum ...
1634; and had the honour of being acted by the Earl of Bridgewater's sons and
daughter. The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe; but we never can refuse to
any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : 1 a quo ceu fonte perenni
Vatum ...
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... asked whose funeral it was: and being told Mr. Dryden's, he said, "What, shall
Dryden, the greatest honour and ornament of the nation, be buried after this
private manner! No, gentlemen, let all that loved Mr. Dryden, and honour his
memory, ...
... asked whose funeral it was: and being told Mr. Dryden's, he said, "What, shall
Dryden, the greatest honour and ornament of the nation, be buried after this
private manner! No, gentlemen, let all that loved Mr. Dryden, and honour his
memory, ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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