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Page 119
... sufficient to attract your favour , " and describes it as a design that you , my Lord , have not thought unworthy to share your attention with treaties and with wars , " he wrote sincerely , and in the confidence of the great man's ...
... sufficient to attract your favour , " and describes it as a design that you , my Lord , have not thought unworthy to share your attention with treaties and with wars , " he wrote sincerely , and in the confidence of the great man's ...
Page 163
... sufficient opportunities of knowing her character , for she was too much pleased with her own accomplishments to ... sufficiently successful , in which he brings home a leash of hares to be.
... sufficient opportunities of knowing her character , for she was too much pleased with her own accomplishments to ... sufficiently successful , in which he brings home a leash of hares to be.
Page 171
... sufficient that he has no landlord to control him , and that none has any right to examine in what projects the lord of the manor spends his own money on his own grounds . " For this reason it is not very common to want sub- jects for ...
... sufficient that he has no landlord to control him , and that none has any right to examine in what projects the lord of the manor spends his own money on his own grounds . " For this reason it is not very common to want sub- jects for ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 9 |
JOHNSONS STYLE AND MANNERISMS | 24 |
JOHNSON ON PASTORAL | 60 |
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