The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Band 8H.G. Bohn, 1844 |
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... less attainable . " I could , with pleasure , expatiate upon the mas- terly execution of the Life of DRYDEN , which we have seen ( 1 ) was one of Johnson's literary projects at an early period , and which it is remarkable , that after ...
... less attainable . " I could , with pleasure , expatiate upon the mas- terly execution of the Life of DRYDEN , which we have seen ( 1 ) was one of Johnson's literary projects at an early period , and which it is remarkable , that after ...
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... [ less trouble ] more facility . " No man sympathises with [ vanity depressed ] the sorrows of vanity . " It had been [ criminal ] less easily excused . " When he [ threatened to lay down ] talked of laying down his pen . " Society [ is ...
... [ less trouble ] more facility . " No man sympathises with [ vanity depressed ] the sorrows of vanity . " It had been [ criminal ] less easily excused . " When he [ threatened to lay down ] talked of laying down his pen . " Society [ is ...
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... less , and could have been little more than a child when Ad- dison died ; so that her evidence as a contemporary is not worth much . If the story be at all true , the most probable explanation is that which was given by Mr. Thomas ...
... less , and could have been little more than a child when Ad- dison died ; so that her evidence as a contemporary is not worth much . If the story be at all true , the most probable explanation is that which was given by Mr. Thomas ...
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... less airy , is less pleasing . " In the Life of Blackmore , we find that writer's reputation generously cleared by Johnson from the cloud of prejudice which the malignity of contem- porary wits had raised around it . In the spirited ...
... less airy , is less pleasing . " In the Life of Blackmore , we find that writer's reputation generously cleared by Johnson from the cloud of prejudice which the malignity of contem- porary wits had raised around it . In the spirited ...
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... less inform- ation than he had hoped to receive from one who had lived so much in intercourse with the brightest men of what has been called the Augustan age of England ; and that he showed a degree of eager curiosity concerning the ...
... less inform- ation than he had hoped to receive from one who had lived so much in intercourse with the brightest men of what has been called the Augustan age of England ; and that he showed a degree of eager curiosity concerning the ...
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