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Page 53 - How unconcern'd in things to come ! if here uneasy, finds at Rome, at Paris, or Madrid, his home. Secure from low and private ends, his life, his zeal, his wealth attends his prince, his country, and his friends.
Page 58 - Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear} He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Like Jason brought the golden fleece ; To him that language, though to none Of th' others, as his own was known.
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| Title | The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 9 The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | H. Hughs, 1779 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jul 20, 2006 |
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