Lives of the English Poets
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Lives of the English Poets, by Samuel Johnson, includes Gay, Thomson, Young and Gray. The introduction says the volume contains a record of twenty lives, and that the eldest of the Poets here discussed were Samuel Garth, Charles Montague (Lord Halifax), and William King.
One life in the book records that a vote of the Commons determined that Charles Montague, Esq., had deserved his Majesty’s favour. The text says of one expression, which reaches the utmost limits of our language, that Gray drove it a little more beyond common apprehension by making gales redolent of joy and youth. The text says the hint for the Ode on Adversity was at first taken from O Diva, gratum quæ regis Antium, but that Gray has excelled his original by the variety of his sentiments, and by their moral application.
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- Samuel Johnson
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