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The deep and pathetic morality of the Vanity of Human Wishes , has often
extracted tears from those whose eyes wander dry over the pages of professed
sentimentality . - WALTER Scott . ( 2 ) “ Mr. D'Israeli , ” as Mr. Chalmers observes ,
“ has ...
The deep and pathetic morality of the Vanity of Human Wishes , has often
extracted tears from those whose eyes wander dry over the pages of professed
sentimentality . - WALTER Scott . ( 2 ) “ Mr. D'Israeli , ” as Mr. Chalmers observes ,
“ has ...
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He was too courageous to propitiate a rival , and too proud to truckle to a superior
, Warburton he knew , as I know him , and as every man of sense and virtue
would wish to be known , - I mean , both from his own writings , and from the
writings ...
He was too courageous to propitiate a rival , and too proud to truckle to a superior
, Warburton he knew , as I know him , and as every man of sense and virtue
would wish to be known , - I mean , both from his own writings , and from the
writings ...
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... this editor throughout ) is the easiest , as well as the dullest , of all literary
efforts . " - Warburton's Letters , published by Bp . Hurd , 8vo . 367. C. VOL . VIII .
C have no wish to be carried forward . " He METAT . 72 . 17 POPE -
WARBURTON .
... this editor throughout ) is the easiest , as well as the dullest , of all literary
efforts . " - Warburton's Letters , published by Bp . Hurd , 8vo . 367. C. VOL . VIII .
C have no wish to be carried forward . " He METAT . 72 . 17 POPE -
WARBURTON .
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have no wish to be carried forward . " He said to the Reverend Mr. Strahan , “
Warburton is perhaps the last man who has written with a mind full of reading and
reflection , ” It is remarkable , that in the Life of Broome , Johnson takes notice of ...
have no wish to be carried forward . " He said to the Reverend Mr. Strahan , “
Warburton is perhaps the last man who has written with a mind full of reading and
reflection , ” It is remarkable , that in the Life of Broome , Johnson takes notice of ...
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... man would wish to have his intimacy with them known to posterity . ” This will
not apply to Lord Mansfield , who was not ennobled in Pope's lifetime ; but
Johnson should have recollected , that Lord Marchmont was one of those noble
friends .
... man would wish to have his intimacy with them known to posterity . ” This will
not apply to Lord Mansfield , who was not ennobled in Pope's lifetime ; but
Johnson should have recollected , that Lord Marchmont was one of those noble
friends .
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 8 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Editor | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 |
| Original from | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2015 |
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