The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent, 1925 |
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Page xv
... whole , you per- ceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition ; all the little peculiarities and slight blemishes which marked the literary Colossus . Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I gave in my ...
... whole , you per- ceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition ; all the little peculiarities and slight blemishes which marked the literary Colossus . Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I gave in my ...
Page xix
... whole tenor of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , morality , loyalty , and subordination , while it delights and improves the wise and the good , will ...
... whole tenor of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , morality , loyalty , and subordination , while it delights and improves the wise and the good , will ...
Page 595
... whole ; his posterity would be disappointed ; but they could not think themselves injured or robbed . If he spent it upon vice or pleasure , his successors could only call him vicious and voluptu- ous ; they could not say that he was ...
... whole ; his posterity would be disappointed ; but they could not think themselves injured or robbed . If he spent it upon vice or pleasure , his successors could only call him vicious and voluptu- ous ; they could not say that he was ...
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