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Excerpt from Lives of English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives
The papers of which this volume is composed ori ginally appeared in the London Magazine, between the years 1821 and 1824. It was the author's intention to continue the series of Lives to a later period, but a change in the proprietorship of the Magazine prevented the completion of his plan. They are now for the first time published in a sepa~ rate form, and under their author's name.
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