The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 4G. Dearborn, 1835 |
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... wrote this stanza , and some friend struck it out . Boileau wrote some such thing , and Arnaud struck it out , saying , ' Vous gagnerez deux ou trois impies , et perdrez je ne sçais combien d'honnêtes gens . ' These fellows want to say ...
... wrote this stanza , and some friend struck it out . Boileau wrote some such thing , and Arnaud struck it out , saying , ' Vous gagnerez deux ou trois impies , et perdrez je ne sçais combien d'honnêtes gens . ' These fellows want to say ...
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... wrote them down in his presence , am partly answerable . " Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a writer ; as to the pastoral part , Virgil is very evidently superior . He wrote when there had been a larger influx of ...
... wrote them down in his presence , am partly answerable . " Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a writer ; as to the pastoral part , Virgil is very evidently superior . He wrote when there had been a larger influx of ...
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... wrote to him . " This paper having been found in his repositories after his death , Sir John Hawkins has inserted it entire , and I have made occasional use of it and other communications from Mr. Hector in the course of this work . I ...
... wrote to him . " This paper having been found in his repositories after his death , Sir John Hawkins has inserted it entire , and I have made occasional use of it and other communications from Mr. Hector in the course of this work . I ...
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