The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together. ✨ Samuel …

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The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1810). The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. J. Phillips. Walsh. Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire, p.14
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