The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J.M. Dent and Sons, 1934 |
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Page 207
... manner , and the want of more examples to enliven , is one of the most nervous , most perspicuous , most concise , most harmonious prose writers I know . A learned diction improves by time . " In the afternoon , as we were driven ...
... manner , and the want of more examples to enliven , is one of the most nervous , most perspicuous , most concise , most harmonious prose writers I know . A learned diction improves by time . " In the afternoon , as we were driven ...
Page 231
... manner ; but his arguments preponderated so much in favour of the benefit which a boy of good parts might receive at one of them , that I have reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his ...
... manner ; but his arguments preponderated so much in favour of the benefit which a boy of good parts might receive at one of them , that I have reason to believe Mr. Murray was very much influenced by what he had heard to - day , in his ...
Page 279
... manner they pleased , as to the sense of it ; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription . " I consider this Round Robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving , as it ...
... manner they pleased , as to the sense of it ; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription . " I consider this Round Robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving , as it ...
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