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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Page 183
... seems too strong at first , but , by degrees , is highly relished ; and such is the melody of his periods , so much do they captivate the ear , and seize upon the attention , that there is scarcely any writer , however inconsiderable ...
... seems too strong at first , but , by degrees , is highly relished ; and such is the melody of his periods , so much do they captivate the ear , and seize upon the attention , that there is scarcely any writer , however inconsiderable ...
Page 213
... seem strange even to entertain a doubt concerning a story so long and so widely current , and thus implicitly adopted , if not ... seems to me to be a proof of it . Nothing can be more rationally imagined ETAT . 45 . 213 LORD CHESTERFIELD .
... seem strange even to entertain a doubt concerning a story so long and so widely current , and thus implicitly adopted , if not ... seems to me to be a proof of it . Nothing can be more rationally imagined ETAT . 45 . 213 LORD CHESTERFIELD .
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... seem to run riot ; ' for in the wantonness of his disquisition he forgets , for a moment , even the reverence for ... seems resolved to forget that Johnson's reverence for the court had not yet commenced . George II . was still alive ...
... seem to run riot ; ' for in the wantonness of his disquisition he forgets , for a moment , even the reverence for ... seems resolved to forget that Johnson's reverence for the court had not yet commenced . George II . was still alive ...
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