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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... occasions , when there was a proper opportunity , take delight in ex- patiating upon the various merits of the English poets : upon the niceties of their characters , and the events of their progress through the world which they ...
... occasions , when there was a proper opportunity , take delight in ex- patiating upon the various merits of the English poets : upon the niceties of their characters , and the events of their progress through the world which they ...
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... occasion Dr. Johnson observed to me , " Sir , I always said the bookseller were a generous set of men . Nor , in the present instance , hav I reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me oo little , but that I have ...
... occasion Dr. Johnson observed to me , " Sir , I always said the bookseller were a generous set of men . Nor , in the present instance , hav I reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me oo little , but that I have ...
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... occasion to maintain his own and the general opinion of the excellence of rhyme over blank verse , in English poetry ; and quotes this apposite illustration of it by " an ingenious critic , " that it seems to be verse only to the eye ...
... occasion to maintain his own and the general opinion of the excellence of rhyme over blank verse , in English poetry ; and quotes this apposite illustration of it by " an ingenious critic , " that it seems to be verse only to the eye ...
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... occasions that were presented , he studied rather than felt ; and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces , but meditation supplies . With the simple and elemental passions , as they spring separate in the mind , he seems not ...
... occasions that were presented , he studied rather than felt ; and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces , but meditation supplies . With the simple and elemental passions , as they spring separate in the mind , he seems not ...
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... occasions a weak and faint glimmering of sense ( which has been the business of this editor throughout ) is the easiest , as well as the dullest , of all literary efforts . " - Warburton's Letters , publishes by Bp . Hurd , 8vo . 367 ...
... occasions a weak and faint glimmering of sense ( which has been the business of this editor throughout ) is the easiest , as well as the dullest , of all literary efforts . " - Warburton's Letters , publishes by Bp . Hurd , 8vo . 367 ...
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