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... poet sets himself so high a standard ( ' the interpreter of nature . . . the legislator of mankind .. being superior to time and place ' ) that Rasselas protests himself convinced that no human being can ever be a poet . The hermit ...
... poet sets himself so high a standard ( ' the interpreter of nature . . . the legislator of mankind .. being superior to time and place ' ) that Rasselas protests himself convinced that no human being can ever be a poet . The hermit ...
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... Poets . Like the Dictionary , the scheme for the Lives originated in a group of booksellers who planned an elegant and uniform edition of the English Poets and invited Johnson to write a short life of each poet included in the edition ...
... Poets . Like the Dictionary , the scheme for the Lives originated in a group of booksellers who planned an elegant and uniform edition of the English Poets and invited Johnson to write a short life of each poet included in the edition ...
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... poet , and if he disliked the personality , he frankly coloured his criticism with his dislike . The two best known instances of this are the Lives of Milton and Gray . About the greatness of the author of Paradise Lost Johnson had no ...
... poet , and if he disliked the personality , he frankly coloured his criticism with his dislike . The two best known instances of this are the Lives of Milton and Gray . About the greatness of the author of Paradise Lost Johnson had no ...
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