The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... thought it right for each generation of a family to do , and being told they had op- posed it , he said , ' Sir , among the anfractuosities of the human mind , I know not if it may not be one , that there is a superstitious reluctance ...
... thought it right for each generation of a family to do , and being told they had op- posed it , he said , ' Sir , among the anfractuosities of the human mind , I know not if it may not be one , that there is a superstitious reluctance ...
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... 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 would shrink ; yet , sir , they will ...
... 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 would shrink ; yet , sir , they will ...
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... thought so , though I should have been mistaken , I told a moral truth . " " " Huggins , the translator of Ariosto , and Mr. Thomas Warton , in the early part of his literary life , had a dispute concerning that poet , of whom Mr Warton ...
... thought so , though I should have been mistaken , I told a moral truth . " " " Huggins , the translator of Ariosto , and Mr. Thomas Warton , in the early part of his literary life , had a dispute concerning that poet , of whom Mr Warton ...
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... thought . " " Talking of the minuteness with which people will In a letter written by Johnson to a friend in Jan. 1742-3 , he says , " I never see Garrick . " - MALONE . record the sayings of eminent persons , a story was 6 [ 1780 . THE ...
... thought . " " Talking of the minuteness with which people will In a letter written by Johnson to a friend in Jan. 1742-3 , he says , " I never see Garrick . " - MALONE . record the sayings of eminent persons , a story was 6 [ 1780 . THE ...
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... thought higher of its power of language ; when I read it myself , I was more sensible of its pathetick effect : ' and then he paid it a compliment which many will think very extravagant . ' Sir , ' said he , if Otway had written this ...
... thought higher of its power of language ; when I read it myself , I was more sensible of its pathetick effect : ' and then he paid it a compliment which many will think very extravagant . ' Sir , ' said he , if Otway had written this ...
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