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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 London Mercury, Volume 11

1925 - 706 pages
...emphasise, were the work of a very young man. They have, he says, " 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/' It was not really the precocity of the Letters which Johnson...
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