The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... nature , that now surround me ; and shall one day , perhaps , think on the hours I might have profitably passed in the Florentine Gallery , and reflecting on Raphael's St. John at that time , as upon Johnson's conversation in this ...
... nature , that now surround me ; and shall one day , perhaps , think on the hours I might have profitably passed in the Florentine Gallery , and reflecting on Raphael's St. John at that time , as upon Johnson's conversation in this ...
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... nature , smiling art . ' Venus , courted by an ode , ' On the bard her Dove bestow'd . Vested with a master's right ' Now Anacreon rules my flight : ' His the letters that you see , ' Weighty charge consign'd to me : ' Think not yet my ...
... nature , smiling art . ' Venus , courted by an ode , ' On the bard her Dove bestow'd . Vested with a master's right ' Now Anacreon rules my flight : ' His the letters that you see , ' Weighty charge consign'd to me : ' Think not yet my ...
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... nature made a pause ; An awful pause - prophetic of its end . " " This ( said he ) is true ; but remember that taking the composi- tions of Young in general , they are but like bright stepping- stones over a miry road : Young froths ...
... nature made a pause ; An awful pause - prophetic of its end . " " This ( said he ) is true ; but remember that taking the composi- tions of Young in general , they are but like bright stepping- stones over a miry road : Young froths ...
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... Nature could no further go , To make a third she join'd the former two . " One evening in the oratorio season of the year 1771 , Mr Johnson went with me to Covent - Garden theatre ; and though he was for the most part an exceedingly bad ...
... Nature could no further go , To make a third she join'd the former two . " One evening in the oratorio season of the year 1771 , Mr Johnson went with me to Covent - Garden theatre ; and though he was for the most part an exceedingly bad ...
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... nature that is gelidè and timidè . " In fact he lived but few months after I believe , and retained his faculties still a shorter time . He was a man of strict piety and profound learning , but little skilled in the knowledge of life or ...
... nature that is gelidè and timidè . " In fact he lived but few months after I believe , and retained his faculties still a shorter time . He was a man of strict piety and profound learning , but little skilled in the knowledge of life or ...
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