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... reason of this official formality , which Johnson evidently adopted playfully . Ib . P. 257. 1. 4. Your notes upon my poet were very acceptable to me . Ib . p . 258. 1. 7. I shall be very glad of them . The above alterations , with the ...
... reason of this official formality , which Johnson evidently adopted playfully . Ib . P. 257. 1. 4. Your notes upon my poet were very acceptable to me . Ib . p . 258. 1. 7. I shall be very glad of them . The above alterations , with the ...
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... reason of this , he replied , Sir , I thought it had been better . " · " " Talking of a point of delicate scrupulosity of moral conduct , he said to Mr. Langton , Men of harder minds than ours will do many things from which you and I ...
... reason of this , he replied , Sir , I thought it had been better . " · " " Talking of a point of delicate scrupulosity of moral conduct , he said to Mr. Langton , Men of harder minds than ours will do many things from which you and I ...
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... reason set them free from it , ) is every day wearing out , seem likely to be of little further assistance in the machinery of poetry . As I recollect , Hammond introduces a hag or witch into one of his love elegies , where the effect ...
... reason set them free from it , ) is every day wearing out , seem likely to be of little further assistance in the machinery of poetry . As I recollect , Hammond introduces a hag or witch into one of his love elegies , where the effect ...
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... reason is plain ; I have had very little money to count . " " 6 " He had an abhorrence of affectation . Talking of old Mr. Langton , of whom he said , Sir , you will seldom see such a gentleman , such are his stores of literature , such ...
... reason is plain ; I have had very little money to count . " " 6 " He had an abhorrence of affectation . Talking of old Mr. Langton , of whom he said , Sir , you will seldom see such a gentleman , such are his stores of literature , such ...
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... reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me too little , but that I have written too much . ' The Lives were soon pub- lished in a separate edition ; when , for a very few corrections , the doctor was presented with ...
... reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me too little , but that I have written too much . ' The Lives were soon pub- lished in a separate edition ; when , for a very few corrections , the doctor was presented with ...
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