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" The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; and the letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world and always suffers to cool as... "
The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives - Page 309
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 pages
...Blenheim.' He was a v«y early writer, both in verse and prose. His 'Progress of love,' and his' Persian Letters,' were both written when he was very young ; and indeed the character of a young man is very visible in both. The Verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; .nul the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...Blenheim." He was a very early writer, both in verse and prose. His " Progress of Love," and his "Persian discriminate every man from all others, if they are not recorded by those whom personal knowledge en visible in both. The Verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; and the...
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Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And ...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...Blenheim.' He was a very early writer, both in verse and prose. His ' Progress of Love,' and his * Persian Letters,' were both written when he was very young; and indeed the character of a young man is very visible in boih. The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed witli flowers ; and the...
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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...Blenheim. He was a very early writer, both in verse and prose. His Progress of Love and his Persian Letters^ were both written when he was very young ; and indeed the character of a young man is very visible in both. The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; and the...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of James Montgomery: Including ..., Volume 1

James Montgomery - 1854 - 366 pages
...exhibiting, as if in proof of Dr. Johnson's notable averment, " something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward." * On the 4th of July appeared the first number of the " Iris,"...
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Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey ...

Robert Southey - 1856 - 482 pages
...Lettres Persannes " of MONTESQUIEU : " The letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward." But what the same sturdy writer says in his " Life of POPE "...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 pages
...was a very early writer, both in verse and prose. His ' Progress of Love ' [1732], and his ' Persian Letters,' were both written when he was very young ; and indeed the charater of a young man is very visible in both." The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 36

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1868 - 828 pages
...never turns to day." Dr. Johnson ("Life of Lyttelton") speaks of "that indistinct and headstrong ardor for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward." He might well have said this of the English man of genius. Southey,...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 36

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1868 - 844 pages
...never turne to day." Dr. Johnson ("Life of Lyttelton") speaks of "that indistinct and headstrong ardor for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward." He might well have said this of the English man of genius. Southey,...
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The Book of Authors: A Collection of Criticisms, Ana, Môts, Personal ...

William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 pages
...Lord Lyttleton — Paul Whitehead. 223 the letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward. — Johnson. One of those little fellows who are sometimes called...
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