“The” Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J.M. Dent, 1949 |
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Page 112
... observed were too gross for imitation . The profits of a single poem , however excellent , appear to have been very small in the last reign , compared with what a publication of the same size has since been known to yield . I have ...
... observed were too gross for imitation . The profits of a single poem , however excellent , appear to have been very small in the last reign , compared with what a publication of the same size has since been known to yield . I have ...
Page 285
... observed , " This may be very well ; but for my part , I prefer the smell of a flambeau at the play - house . " " for there 1 [ Epigram . Lib . II " In Elizabeth . Angliæ Reg . " - I suspect that the authour's memory here deceived him ...
... observed , " This may be very well ; but for my part , I prefer the smell of a flambeau at the play - house . " " for there 1 [ Epigram . Lib . II " In Elizabeth . Angliæ Reg . " - I suspect that the authour's memory here deceived him ...
Page 550
... observed , " They are very well ; but such as twenty people might write . " Upon this 1 took occasion to controvert Horace's maxim , 66 -mediocribus esse poetis Non Di , non homines , non concessêre columnæ : " for here , ( I observed ...
... observed , " They are very well ; but such as twenty people might write . " Upon this 1 took occasion to controvert Horace's maxim , 66 -mediocribus esse poetis Non Di , non homines , non concessêre columnæ : " for here , ( I observed ...
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