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... expressed in an easy style , that I should injure it by any alteration : " When Johnson came to Oxford in 1754 , the long vacation was beginning , and most people were leaving the place . This was the first time of his being there ...
... expressed in an easy style , that I should injure it by any alteration : " When Johnson came to Oxford in 1754 , the long vacation was beginning , and most people were leaving the place . This was the first time of his being there ...
Page 457
... expressed his admiration of the fertility of Warburton's genius and of the variety of his materials was , " The ... expression which he himself used , and that not seldom , to the great offence of those who did not know him . Having ...
... expressed his admiration of the fertility of Warburton's genius and of the variety of his materials was , " The ... expression which he himself used , and that not seldom , to the great offence of those who did not know him . Having ...
Page 584
... expressed himself in a letter to William Seward , Esq .: " I leave this mighty task to some hardier and some abler writer . The variety and splendour of Johnson's attainments , the peculiarities of his char- acter , his private virtues ...
... expressed himself in a letter to William Seward , Esq .: " I leave this mighty task to some hardier and some abler writer . The variety and splendour of Johnson's attainments , the peculiarities of his char- acter , his private virtues ...
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