The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... character , without impairing the most unaffected piety . " B. 2 See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman , and of his curious work on the Middle State , in the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , 3rd edit . p . 371. B ...
... character , without impairing the most unaffected piety . " B. 2 See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman , and of his curious work on the Middle State , in the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , 3rd edit . p . 371. B ...
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... character being mentioned ; -JOHN- son : " I remember being present when he shewed himself to be so corrupted , or at least something so different from what I think right , as to maintain , that a member of Parliament should go along ...
... character being mentioned ; -JOHN- son : " I remember being present when he shewed himself to be so corrupted , or at least something so different from what I think right , as to maintain , that a member of Parliament should go along ...
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... character . " For instance , " said he , " the fable of the little fishes , who saw birds fly over their heads , and envying them , petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds . The skill , ' continued he , " consists in making them ...
... character . " For instance , " said he , " the fable of the little fishes , who saw birds fly over their heads , and envying them , petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds . The skill , ' continued he , " consists in making them ...
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... character of Mallet having been introduced , and spoken of slightingly by Goldsmith ; JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , Mallet had talents enough to keep his literary reputa- tion alive as long as he himself lived ; and that , let me tell you ...
... character of Mallet having been introduced , and spoken of slightingly by Goldsmith ; JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , Mallet had talents enough to keep his literary reputa- tion alive as long as he himself lived ; and that , let me tell you ...
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... character beyond what I thought really true ; but a speech on the stage , let it flatter ever so extravagantly , is formular . It has always been formular to flatter kings and queens ; so much so , that even in our church - service we ...
... character beyond what I thought really true ; but a speech on the stage , let it flatter ever so extravagantly , is formular . It has always been formular to flatter kings and queens ; so much so , that even in our church - service we ...
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