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"Life of Milton [from Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, familiarly known as The Lives of the Poets]"
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Date: 1779, 1781
"Thus, comparing the shield of Satan to the orb of the Moon, he crowds the imagination with the discovery of the telescope and all the wonders which the telescope discovers"
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Date: 1779, 1781
"Whatever be his subject he never fails to fill the imagination."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)