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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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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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Date: 1779-1780, 1781
"He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction and subjects of fancy, and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular ...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)