Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

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He that runs against Time has an antagonist not subject to casualties.

Samuel Johnson

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Time is undefeated Relentlessness of time Time

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Samuel Johnson

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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

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English

Time

1781 1780s 18th century

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Age of Enlightenment

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Johnson, Samuel. "Pope." Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London: C. Bathurst, et al., 1781.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. "Pope." The Lives of the Poets: A Selection, edited by Roger Lonsdale. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Words being arbitrary must owe their power to association, and have the influence, and that only, which custom has given them. Language is the dress of thought.

Samuel Johnson

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

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Meaning of words Words Language

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Samuel Johnson

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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

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Biography

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English

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1779 1770s 18th century

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Johnson, Samuel. "Cowley." Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London, c. 1779.

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Johnson, Samuel. "Cowley." The Lives of the Poets: A Selection, edited by Roger Lonsdale. Oxford University Press, 2009.

The great source of pleasure is variety. Uniformity must tire at last, though it be uniformity of excellence. We love to expect; and when expectation is disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Samuel Johnson

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Variety Anticipation Monotony

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Samuel Johnson

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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

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English

Time

1781 1780s 18th century

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Age of Enlightenment

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Johnson, Samuel. "Butler." Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London: C. Bathurst, et al., 1781.

To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by eternal ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

Samuel Johnson

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

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Organized religion The Church

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Samuel Johnson

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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

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English

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1781 1780s 18th century

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Johnson, Samuel. "Milton." Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London: C. Bathurst, et al., 1781.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. "Milton." The Lives of the Poets: A Selection, edited by Roger Lonsdale. Oxford University Press, 2009.