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... wishes to recapture the Boswellian aura , he must do as Boswell did and study the works of the man who became known as ... wish was fulfilled . But among all his schemes for the attainment of literary fame , there remained at the back of ...
... wishes to recapture the Boswellian aura , he must do as Boswell did and study the works of the man who became known as ... wish was fulfilled . But among all his schemes for the attainment of literary fame , there remained at the back of ...
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... wish'd for Jonson's Art or Shakespeare's Flame ; Themselves they studied , as they felt , they writ , Intrigue was Plot , Obscenity was Wit . Vice always found a sympathetic Friend ; They pleas'd their age and did not aim to mend . Two ...
... wish'd for Jonson's Art or Shakespeare's Flame ; Themselves they studied , as they felt , they writ , Intrigue was Plot , Obscenity was Wit . Vice always found a sympathetic Friend ; They pleas'd their age and did not aim to mend . Two ...
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... wish that Milton had been a rhymer ; for I cannot wish his work to be other than it is . Such is Johnson's considered verdict on a poem which is not the greatest of heroic poems only because it is not the first ' . These are the ...
... wish that Milton had been a rhymer ; for I cannot wish his work to be other than it is . Such is Johnson's considered verdict on a poem which is not the greatest of heroic poems only because it is not the first ' . These are the ...
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