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p. 5INTRODUCTION. This volume contains a record of twenty lives, of which only one—that of Edward Young—is treated at length.  It completes our edition of Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, from which a few only of the briefest and least important have been omitted. The eldest of the Poets here discussed were Samuel Garth, Charles Montague (Lord Halifax), and William King, who were born within the years 1660–63.  Next in age were Addison’s friend Ambrose Philips, and Nicholas Rowe the dram