Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
Samuel Johnson · English
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Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
Samuel Johnson · English
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INTRODUCTION. When, at the age of sixty-eight, Johnson was writing these “Lives of the English Poets,” he had caused omissions to be made from the poems of Rochester, and was asked whether he would allow the printers to give all the verse of Prior. Boswell quoted a censure by Lord Hailes of “those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author.” Johnson replied, “Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Prior that will excite to lewdness;” and whe
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