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many readers , and therefore poetry of a middle sort was entitled to some esteem
; nor could I see why poetry should not , like every thing else , have different
gradations of excellence , and , consequently of value . Johnson repeated the ...
many readers , and therefore poetry of a middle sort was entitled to some esteem
; nor could I see why poetry should not , like every thing else , have different
gradations of excellence , and , consequently of value . Johnson repeated the ...
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Johnson , who could not bear any thing like swearing , angrily replied , “ He was
not a damned fool : he only thought too well of Campbell . He did not believe
Campbell would be such a damned scoundrel , as to do so damned a thing .
Johnson , who could not bear any thing like swearing , angrily replied , “ He was
not a damned fool : he only thought too well of Campbell . He did not believe
Campbell would be such a damned scoundrel , as to do so damned a thing .
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No , Sir ; a man would never undertake great things could he be amused with
small . I once tried knotting . ... I am as much vexed ( said he ) at the ease with
which she hears it mentioned to her , as at the thing itself . I told her , ' Madam ,
you ...
No , Sir ; a man would never undertake great things could he be amused with
small . I once tried knotting . ... I am as much vexed ( said he ) at the ease with
which she hears it mentioned to her , as at the thing itself . I told her , ' Madam ,
you ...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Henry Richard Tedder |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Editor | Percy Fitzgerald |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2020 |
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