The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J.M. Dent and Sons, 1934 |
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... English , as we are apt to call what is far removed from the Scotch , but which is by no means good English , and makes , " the fools who use it , " truly ridiculous . Good English is plain , easy , and smooth in the mouth of an ...
... English , as we are apt to call what is far removed from the Scotch , but which is by no means good English , and makes , " the fools who use it , " truly ridiculous . Good English is plain , easy , and smooth in the mouth of an ...
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... English Poets ' will be very valuable , on account of the Prefaces and Lives . ' But I have seen a specimen of an ... English cathedrals , I will take 1 [ Dr . Johnson was not the editor of this Collection of the English Poets ; he ...
... English Poets ' will be very valuable , on account of the Prefaces and Lives . ' But I have seen a specimen of an ... English cathedrals , I will take 1 [ Dr . Johnson was not the editor of this Collection of the English Poets ; he ...
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... English in it . " JOHNSON . " It may have been radically Teutonick ; but English and High Dutch have no similarity to the eye , though radically the same . Once when looking into Low Dutch , I found , in a whole page , only one word ...
... English in it . " JOHNSON . " It may have been radically Teutonick ; but English and High Dutch have no similarity to the eye , though radically the same . Once when looking into Low Dutch , I found , in a whole page , only one word ...
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