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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... writing . Bet Flint . - English Sermons . Monckton . - - ― 1 Oratory . — Beauclerk's Library - - Blue - Stocking Clubs . Miss Talking for Victory . A Cui Bono Man . 19- - " Heroic Epistle . " -- Lord Carlisle's Poems . - Dr. Barnard ...
... writing . Bet Flint . - English Sermons . Monckton . - - ― 1 Oratory . — Beauclerk's Library - - Blue - Stocking Clubs . Miss Talking for Victory . A Cui Bono Man . 19- - " Heroic Epistle . " -- Lord Carlisle's Poems . - Dr. Barnard ...
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... writing , and this dilatoriness ever to write , Dr. Johnson always retained , from the days that he lay a - bed and dictated his first publication to Mr. Hector , to the moment he made me copy out those variations in Pope's VOL . VIII ...
... writing , and this dilatoriness ever to write , Dr. Johnson always retained , from the days that he lay a - bed and dictated his first publication to Mr. Hector , to the moment he made me copy out those variations in Pope's VOL . VIII ...
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... write , the subject swelled in such a manner , that instead of prefaces to each poet , of no more than a few pages , as he had originally in- tended ( 1 ) , he produced an ample , rich , and most - • And Homer which are printed in the ...
... write , the subject swelled in such a manner , that instead of prefaces to each poet , of no more than a few pages , as he had originally in- tended ( 1 ) , he produced an ample , rich , and most - • And Homer which are printed in the ...
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... writer against Pope . Our materials are defective . " As Waller professed to have imitated Fairfax , do you think a ... writing is an almost perfect specimen of calligraphy ; and this power remained unimpaired to the last years of her ...
... writer against Pope . Our materials are defective . " As Waller professed to have imitated Fairfax , do you think a ... writing is an almost perfect specimen of calligraphy ; and this power remained unimpaired to the last years of her ...
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... writes . ( 3 ) One of the most natural instances of the effect of blank verse occurred to the late Earl of Hopeton . His lordship ob served one of his shepherds poring in the fields upon Milton's " Paradise Lost ; " and having asked him ...
... writes . ( 3 ) One of the most natural instances of the effect of blank verse occurred to the late Earl of Hopeton . His lordship ob served one of his shepherds poring in the fields upon Milton's " Paradise Lost ; " and having asked him ...
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