The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 |
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... question whether any body can repeat it now ; which shews how improbable it is that much poetry should be preserved by tradition . " One of the company suggested an internal objection to the antiquity of the poetry said to be Ossian's ...
... question whether any body can repeat it now ; which shews how improbable it is that much poetry should be preserved by tradition . " One of the company suggested an internal objection to the antiquity of the poetry said to be Ossian's ...
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... questions , and it is extremely offensive . We defended it upon Boswell's eagerness to hear the Doctor speak . " " Boswell took up the defence of suicide for argument's sake , and the Doctor said that some cases were more excusable than ...
... questions , and it is extremely offensive . We defended it upon Boswell's eagerness to hear the Doctor speak . " " Boswell took up the defence of suicide for argument's sake , and the Doctor said that some cases were more excusable than ...
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... question of propriety , whether when a man knows that some of his intimate friends are invited to the house of another friend , with whom they are all equally intimate , he may join them without an invitation . JOHNSON . " No , Sir ; he ...
... question of propriety , whether when a man knows that some of his intimate friends are invited to the house of another friend , with whom they are all equally intimate , he may join them without an invitation . JOHNSON . " No , Sir ; he ...
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... question , whether it was pernicious in its effects , having been introduced ; -JOHNSON . " As to this matter , which has been very much contested , I myself am of opinion , that more influence has been ascribed to ' The Beggars Opera ...
... question , whether it was pernicious in its effects , having been introduced ; -JOHNSON . " As to this matter , which has been very much contested , I myself am of opinion , that more influence has been ascribed to ' The Beggars Opera ...
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... question is , which is worst , one wild beast or many ? " Johnson praised " The SPECTATOR , " particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley . He said , " Sir Roger did not die a violent death , as had been generally fancied . He ...
... question is , which is worst , one wild beast or many ? " Johnson praised " The SPECTATOR , " particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley . He said , " Sir Roger did not die a violent death , as had been generally fancied . He ...
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