The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides;H.G. Bohn, 1846 |
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... reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me too little , but that I have written too much . " The " Lives " were soon published in a separate edition ; when , for a very few corrections , the doctor was presented with ...
... reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me too little , but that I have written too much . " The " Lives " were soon published in a separate edition ; when , for a very few corrections , the doctor was presented with ...
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... reason than quick sensibility . Upon all occasions that were presented , he studied rather than felt ; and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces , but meditation supplies . With the simple and elemental passions , as they ...
... reason than quick sensibility . Upon all occasions that were presented , he studied rather than felt ; and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces , but meditation supplies . With the simple and elemental passions , as they ...
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... reason of this general perusal , Addison has attempted to [ find in ] derive from the delight which the minds feels in the investigation of secrets . " His best actions are but [ convenient ] inability of wickedness . " When once he had ...
... reason of this general perusal , Addison has attempted to [ find in ] derive from the delight which the minds feels in the investigation of secrets . " His best actions are but [ convenient ] inability of wickedness . " When once he had ...
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... reason to be offended with . As it is , I think myself obliged to him in thus setting before the public so many of my notes , with his remarks upon them : for though I have no great opinion of the trifling part of the public , which ...
... reason to be offended with . As it is , I think myself obliged to him in thus setting before the public so many of my notes , with his remarks upon them : for though I have no great opinion of the trifling part of the public , which ...
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... reason for this . ' If nothing but the bright side of characters should be shown , we should sit down in de- spondency , and think it utterly impossible to imitate them in any thing . The sacred writers , ' he observed , ' re- lated the ...
... reason for this . ' If nothing but the bright side of characters should be shown , we should sit down in de- spondency , and think it utterly impossible to imitate them in any thing . The sacred writers , ' he observed , ' re- lated the ...
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