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Page vii
... character , weighed in this exact balance , has not been found wanting . He is unveiled before us ; his every heedless word uttered under irritated feelings is recorded ; his every foible is revealed ; and , despite of all his ...
... character , weighed in this exact balance , has not been found wanting . He is unveiled before us ; his every heedless word uttered under irritated feelings is recorded ; his every foible is revealed ; and , despite of all his ...
Page ix
... distinct portraiture , Johnson's companions clus- tered around their venerated master in all the grotesque variety of their undisguised character , listening to conversations of which Athens might have been justly PREFATORY NOTICE . ix.
... distinct portraiture , Johnson's companions clus- tered around their venerated master in all the grotesque variety of their undisguised character , listening to conversations of which Athens might have been justly PREFATORY NOTICE . ix.
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... character . ) ' O brave ! ' said Johnson . " " 6 999 " Of Mr. Longley , at Rochester , a gentleman of very considerable learning , whom Dr. Johnson met there , he said , My heart warms towards him . I was surprised to find in him such a ...
... character . ) ' O brave ! ' said Johnson . " " 6 999 " Of Mr. Longley , at Rochester , a gentleman of very considerable learning , whom Dr. Johnson met there , he said , My heart warms towards him . I was surprised to find in him such a ...
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... character , ( naming the person , ) as to the general cast of it , is well described by Garrick ; but a great deal of the phraseology he uses in it , is quite bis own , particularly in the proverbial comparisons , obstinate as a pig ...
... character , ( naming the person , ) as to the general cast of it , is well described by Garrick ; but a great deal of the phraseology he uses in it , is quite bis own , particularly in the proverbial comparisons , obstinate as a pig ...
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... Character of Hamlet , written , I should suppose , by a very young man , though called ' reverend ; ' who speaks with presumptuous petulance of the first literary character of his age . Amidst a cloudy confusion of words , which hath of ...
... Character of Hamlet , written , I should suppose , by a very young man , though called ' reverend ; ' who speaks with presumptuous petulance of the first literary character of his age . Amidst a cloudy confusion of words , which hath of ...
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