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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets - Page 396
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden ..., Volumes 3-4

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 602 pages
...ceremonies which cuftom has eftablimed as the barriers between one order of fociety 7 and another. This tranfgreffion of regularity was by himfelf and...in his power ; he is either repelled with helplefs indignity, or endured by clemency and condefcenfion, Of Swift's general habits of thinking if his Letters...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English ..., Volume 58

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 248 pages
...ceremonies which cuftom has cftablifhed as the barbarriersbetween one order of fociety and another. This tranfgreffion of regularity was by himfelf and...foul. But a great mind difdains to hold any thing by courtcfy, and therefore never ufurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He that encroaches on another's...
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The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 262 pages
...thofe ceremonies which cuflom has eflablifhed as the barriers between one order of fociety and another This tranfgreffion of regularity was by himfelf and...foul. But a great mind difdains to hold any thing by eourtefy, and therefore never ufurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He that encroaches on another's...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 454 pages
...eftablifhed as the barriers between one order of fociety and another. This tranfgreffion of regularity tvas by himfelf and his admirers termed greatnefs of foul....in his power; he is either repelled with helplefs indignity, or endured by clemency and condefcenfion. Of Swift's general habits of thinking if his Letters...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 3

English poets - 1790 - 332 pages
...of foul. Uut a great mu\d dlfdiins to hold any thing by courtefy, aud v\x 7 lawful clairriant rrtay take away. He that encroaches on another's dignity,...in his power; he is either repelled with helplefs indignity, or endured by clemency and condefcenfion. Of Swift's general habits of thinking, if his...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 422 pages
...thofe ceremonies which cuftom has eftablifhed as the barriers between one order of fociety and another. This tranfgreffion of regularity was by himfelf and...in his power; he is either repelled with helplefs indignity, or endured by clemency and condefcenfion. Of Swift's general habits of thinking, if his...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Swift. Thompson. Watts ...

1794 - 954 pages
...fociety and another. This tranfgrcflion of regularity was, by himfelf and his admirers, termed greatntfs of foul. But a great mind difdains to hold any thing by courtefy, and therefore cevcr ufurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He then encroaches on another's dignity, puts himfelf...
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Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1798 - 464 pages
...fociety and another. This tranfgrcffion of regularity was by himfelf and his admirers termed greatncfs of foul ; but a great mind difdains to hold any thing by courtcfy, and therefore never uiurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He that encroaches on another's...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...termed'greatness of soul. But a great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy, and therefore never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He that encroaches on another's dignity, puts himself in his power : he is either repelled with helpless inĀ» dignity, or endured by clemency and...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's ..., Volume 19

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 422 pages
...greatness of soul. But a great mind disdains to hold any thing by courtesy, and therefore never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He that encroaches on another's dignity, puts himself in his power; he is either repelled with helpless indignity, or endured by clemency and condescension....
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