“The” Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J.M. Dent, 1949 |
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Page xvi
... whole , you perceived 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 perceived 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 190
... whole course of his life when he condescended to oppose any thing that was written against him . I suppose when he thought of any of his little antagonists , he was ever justly aware of the high sentiment of Ajax in Ovid : " Iste tulit ...
... whole course of his life when he condescended to oppose any thing that was written against him . I suppose when he thought of any of his little antagonists , he was ever justly aware of the high sentiment of Ajax in Ovid : " Iste tulit ...
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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