The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to a literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclusion, shewing from various causes why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the public.
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Birth: | 18th September, 1709 |
Death: | 13th December, 1784 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Author, Critic, Essayist, Poet |
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