The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 7J. Murray, 1839 |
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Page 121
... seems possessed of a prodigious fund of knowledge , which he is not at all reserved in communicating ; but in a manner so obstinate , un- genteel , and boorish , as renders it disagreeable and dissatisfactory . In short , it is ...
... seems possessed of a prodigious fund of knowledge , which he is not at all reserved in communicating ; but in a manner so obstinate , un- genteel , and boorish , as renders it disagreeable and dissatisfactory . In short , it is ...
Page 189
... seems deficient in poetical splendour ; yet it is certainly the nearest portrait we have of Homer , and the more one reads it , the better it seems . C. 1835 . - volume at a moderate price to the booksellers , that ETAT . 69 . 189 DR ...
... seems deficient in poetical splendour ; yet it is certainly the nearest portrait we have of Homer , and the more one reads it , the better it seems . C. 1835 . - volume at a moderate price to the booksellers , that ETAT . 69 . 189 DR ...
Page 351
... seems not to have seen that the brothers have their advantage in their argument over his Argonaut heroes . The Sicilian Gossips ' is a piece of inerit . “ Callimachus is a writer of little excellence . The chief thing to be learned from ...
... seems not to have seen that the brothers have their advantage in their argument over his Argonaut heroes . The Sicilian Gossips ' is a piece of inerit . “ Callimachus is a writer of little excellence . The chief thing to be learned from ...
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