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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... thing that might be done in a few weeks , and was surprised and fatigued at the length to which he found it expand : and it is not wonderful that at so advanced an age he was not very anxious to purchase minute accuracy by the labour of ...
... thing that might be done in a few weeks , and was surprised and fatigued at the length to which he found it expand : and it is not wonderful that at so advanced an age he was not very anxious to purchase minute accuracy by the labour of ...
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... thing of the same writer against Pope . Our materials are defective . " As Waller professed to have imitated Fairfax , do you think a few pages of Fairfax would enrich our edi- tion ? Few readers have seen it , and it may please them ...
... thing of the same writer against Pope . Our materials are defective . " As Waller professed to have imitated Fairfax , do you think a few pages of Fairfax would enrich our edi- tion ? Few readers have seen it , and it may please them ...
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... things from the north , and the south , and from every quarter . In his Divine Legation , ' you are always entertained . He carries you round and round , with- out carrying you forward to the point , but then you is it wrong , is it not ...
... things from the north , and the south , and from every quarter . In his Divine Legation , ' you are always entertained . He carries you round and round , with- out carrying you forward to the point , but then you is it wrong , is it not ...
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... thing was not so as told , though the re- later did not mean to deceive . When he thought there was intentional falsehood in the relater , his expression was , " He lies , and he knows he lies . " Speaking of Pope's not having been ...
... thing was not so as told , though the re- later did not mean to deceive . When he thought there was intentional falsehood in the relater , his expression was , " He lies , and he knows he lies . " Speaking of Pope's not having been ...
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... thing . The sacred writers , ' he observed , ' re- ated the vicious as well as the virtuous actions of men ; which had this moral effect , that it kept mankind from despair , into which otherwise they would naturally fall , were they ...
... thing . The sacred writers , ' he observed , ' re- ated the vicious as well as the virtuous actions of men ; which had this moral effect , that it kept mankind from despair , into which otherwise they would naturally fall , were they ...
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