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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Life of Collins [from Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, familiarly known as The Lives of the Poets]"
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"Prose"
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Date: 1779-1780, 1781
"The latter part of his life cannot be remembered but with pity and sadness. He languished some years under that depression of mind which enchains the faculties without destroying them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)