The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1John W. Lovell Company, 1899 - Authors, English |
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... mentioned , has very generaily , I believe , been misunderstood : - " Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring , And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king . " The lady mentioned in the first of these verses , was not the ...
... mentioned , has very generaily , I believe , been misunderstood : - " Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring , And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king . " The lady mentioned in the first of these verses , was not the ...
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... mentioned , Johnson said , " Why , Sir , he is a man of good parts , but being originally poor , he has got a love of mean company , and low jocularity ; a very bad thing , Sir . To laugh is good , as to talk is good . But you ought no ...
... mentioned , Johnson said , " Why , Sir , he is a man of good parts , but being originally poor , he has got a love of mean company , and low jocularity ; a very bad thing , Sir . To laugh is good , as to talk is good . But you ought no ...
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... mentioned , as an instance of it , an assertion of that writer , that he had seen objects magnified to a much greater degree by using three or four microscopes at a time than by using one . " Now , " added Johnson , " every one ...
... mentioned , as an instance of it , an assertion of that writer , that he had seen objects magnified to a much greater degree by using three or four microscopes at a time than by using one . " Now , " added Johnson , " every one ...
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