The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 - Authors, English |
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... . Virgil has much more description , more sen- timent , more of nature , and more of art . Some of the most excellent parts of Theocritus are , where Castor and VOL . IV . B Pollux , going with the other Argonauts , land on THE LIFE ...
... . Virgil has much more description , more sen- timent , more of nature , and more of art . Some of the most excellent parts of Theocritus are , where Castor and VOL . IV . B Pollux , going with the other Argonauts , land on THE LIFE ...
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... excellent epilogue to it . Mrs. Lennox , whose maiden name was Ramsay , died in London in distressed circumstances , in her eighty - fourth year , January 4 , 1804.MALONE . Then the proper expression should have been , -Sir , ETAT . 71 ...
... excellent epilogue to it . Mrs. Lennox , whose maiden name was Ramsay , died in London in distressed circumstances , in her eighty - fourth year , January 4 , 1804.MALONE . Then the proper expression should have been , -Sir , ETAT . 71 ...
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... excellent paper in the Spectator , one of four that were written by the respectable dissenting mi- nister Mr. Grove , of Taunton , and observing the genius and energy of mind that it exhibits , it greatly quickened his curiosity to ...
... excellent paper in the Spectator , one of four that were written by the respectable dissenting mi- nister Mr. Grove , of Taunton , and observing the genius and energy of mind that it exhibits , it greatly quickened his curiosity to ...
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... excellent dedication of his Juvenal , but had barely mentioned them . Johnson has exhibited them at large , with such happy illustration from their writings , and in so luminous a manner , that indeed he may be allowed the full merit of ...
... excellent dedication of his Juvenal , but had barely mentioned them . Johnson has exhibited them at large , with such happy illustration from their writings , and in so luminous a manner , that indeed he may be allowed the full merit of ...
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... excellent . Mr. Wilkes has , however , favoured me with one repartee of Pope , of which Johnson was not informed . Johnson , after justly censuring him for having " nursed in his mind a foolish disesteem of kings , " tells us , " yet a ...
... excellent . Mr. Wilkes has , however , favoured me with one repartee of Pope , of which Johnson was not informed . Johnson , after justly censuring him for having " nursed in his mind a foolish disesteem of kings , " tells us , " yet a ...
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