Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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Page 124
... wrote : " I finished the Lives of the Poets , which I wrote in my usual way - dilatory and hastily , unwilling to work , and working with vigour and haste . " In 1774 Johnson's social circle experienced a loss by the death of Goldsmith ...
... wrote : " I finished the Lives of the Poets , which I wrote in my usual way - dilatory and hastily , unwilling to work , and working with vigour and haste . " In 1774 Johnson's social circle experienced a loss by the death of Goldsmith ...
Page 186
... wrote down in the form of a sonnet , and this sonnet was the first of a series of love - poems which he wrote and published . I cannot tell here the story of Dante and Beatrice , but it is to be read as it came palpitating from the ...
... wrote down in the form of a sonnet , and this sonnet was the first of a series of love - poems which he wrote and published . I cannot tell here the story of Dante and Beatrice , but it is to be read as it came palpitating from the ...
Page 212
... wrote his laws Alfred re - wrote them , together with those of Ini and Offa , daring to add but little of his own . So the code of law was handed down from age to age , and Kings like Edward and Elder , Athelstan , Edmund , Edgar , and ...
... wrote his laws Alfred re - wrote them , together with those of Ini and Offa , daring to add but little of his own . So the code of law was handed down from age to age , and Kings like Edward and Elder , Athelstan , Edmund , Edgar , and ...
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