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"Tory"
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"Light"
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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Work title:
"Life of Savage [from Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, familiarly known as The Lives of the Poets]"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1781
"He proceeded throughout his life to tread the same steps on the same circle; always applauding his past conduct, or at least forgetting it, to amuse himself with phantoms of happiness which were dancing before him, and willingly turned his eyes from the light of reason, when it would have discov...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)