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Excerpt from Select Essays of Dr. Johnson, Vol. 1
If to the common run of readers Cowley was to be anything more than a name, it was only in a selection from his poems that he could still be known. Like all other writers, be had had to pass through futurity protected only by his genius,4 and his genius had been found too weak to bear up the whole weight of the burthen. If the little bark was to sail in safety along the stream of time, it had become needful to throw overboard the larger part of the cargo.
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