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Life of Johnson, Volume 4, 1780-1784

Note 458 — THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (continued 3)

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Johnson has here expressed a sentiment similar to that contained in one of Shenstone's stanzas, to which, in his life of that poet, he has given high praise:—

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