The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 8Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 |
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... it was , the man answered , " An't please your lordship , this is a very odd sort of an author : he would fain rhyme , but cannot get at it . " and taste in the fine arts is universally celebrated ; EAT . 72 . 11 MILTON .
... it was , the man answered , " An't please your lordship , this is a very odd sort of an author : he would fain rhyme , but cannot get at it . " and taste in the fine arts is universally celebrated ; EAT . 72 . 11 MILTON .
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... answer the question that has once been asked , Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return , if Pope be not a poet , where is poetry to be found ? To circum- scribe poetry by a definition , will only show the nar ...
... answer the question that has once been asked , Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return , if Pope be not a poet , where is poetry to be found ? To circum- scribe poetry by a definition , will only show the nar ...
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... answer which Pope made was , " The young lion is harmless , and even playful ; but when his claws are full grown , he becomes cruel , dreadful , and mischievous . " But although we have no collection of Pope's say- ings , it is not ...
... answer which Pope made was , " The young lion is harmless , and even playful ; but when his claws are full grown , he becomes cruel , dreadful , and mischievous . " But although we have no collection of Pope's say- ings , it is not ...
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... answered , " I had made up m mind upon that case ; " Johnson , with an indignant contempt , said , " If he was such a rogue as to make up his mind upon a case without hearing it , he should not have been such a fool as to tell it ...
... answered , " I had made up m mind upon that case ; " Johnson , with an indignant contempt , said , " If he was such a rogue as to make up his mind upon a case without hearing it , he should not have been such a fool as to tell it ...
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... answered , " How can your lordship ask so simple a question ? " But im- mediately recovering himself , whether from ... answer the paragraph , and contradict it , I'd have a reply , and would say , that he who contradicted it was no ...
... answered , " How can your lordship ask so simple a question ? " But im- mediately recovering himself , whether from ... answer the paragraph , and contradict it , I'd have a reply , and would say , that he who contradicted it was no ...
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