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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... 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 , that we do not find the wolf in it , which must ...
... 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 , that we do not find the wolf in it , which must ...
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... shew two hundred scholars . Peiresc's death was lamented , I think , in forty languages . And I would have at every coronation , and every death of a King , every Gaudium , and every Luctus , University verses in as many languages as ...
... shew two hundred scholars . Peiresc's death was lamented , I think , in forty languages . And I would have at every coronation , and every death of a King , every Gaudium , and every Luctus , University verses in as many languages as ...
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... shew me them , but I neglected to put him in mind of it ; and the greatest part of them have been lost , or ... shews an extraordinary attention to various minute particulars . Being the only memorial of this tour that remains , my ...
... shew me them , but I neglected to put him in mind of it ; and the greatest part of them have been lost , or ... shews an extraordinary attention to various minute particulars . Being the only memorial of this tour that remains , my ...
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... shew himself a man of gallantry , was hurrying down the staircase in violent . agitation . He overtook us before we reached the Temple - gate , and brushing in between me and Madame de Boufflers , seised her hand , and conducted her to ...
... shew himself a man of gallantry , was hurrying down the staircase in violent . agitation . He overtook us before we reached the Temple - gate , and brushing in between me and Madame de Boufflers , seised her hand , and conducted her to ...
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... shews himself superiour is lessened in the eyes of the young men . You know it was said , ' Mallem cum Scaligero errare quam cum Clavio rectè sapere . ' In the same manner take Bentley's and Jason de Neres ' Comments upon Horace , you ...
... shews himself superiour is lessened in the eyes of the young men . You know it was said , ' Mallem cum Scaligero errare quam cum Clavio rectè sapere . ' In the same manner take Bentley's and Jason de Neres ' Comments upon Horace , you ...
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