The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J. M. Dent & Company, 1931 |
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... remark : " Each might his several province well command , Would all but stoop to what they understand . " " BOSWELL . " And his plays are good . " JOHNSON . " Yes ; but that was his trade ; l'esprit du corps ; he had been all his life ...
... remark : " Each might his several province well command , Would all but stoop to what they understand . " " BOSWELL . " And his plays are good . " JOHNSON . " Yes ; but that was his trade ; l'esprit du corps ; he had been all his life ...
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... remark , we may instance what is related of the great Lord Granville ; that after he had written his letter giving an account of the battle of Dettingen , he said , Here Lord Macartney remarks , " A Bramin or any cast of the Hindoos ...
... remark , we may instance what is related of the great Lord Granville ; that after he had written his letter giving an account of the battle of Dettingen , he said , Here Lord Macartney remarks , " A Bramin or any cast of the Hindoos ...
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... remarks on my Work , which he is pleased to say , " I have hitherto extolled , and cordially approve . " " The chief ... remark , in my mind an obvious and just one , which I think he has not made , that Johnson's " morbid melancholy ...
... remarks on my Work , which he is pleased to say , " I have hitherto extolled , and cordially approve . " " The chief ... remark , in my mind an obvious and just one , which I think he has not made , that Johnson's " morbid melancholy ...
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