The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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Page 30
... imagination , and force of language , would probably have produced something sublime upon the gunpowder- plot . To apologise for his neglect , he gave in a short copy of verses entitled Somnium , containing a common thought ; " That the ...
... imagination , and force of language , would probably have produced something sublime upon the gunpowder- plot . To apologise for his neglect , he gave in a short copy of verses entitled Somnium , containing a common thought ; " That the ...
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... imagination and spirits , while the judgment is sound , and a disorder by which the judgment itself is impaired . This distinction was made to me by the late Professor Gaubius of Leyden , physician to the Prince of Orange , in a ...
... imagination and spirits , while the judgment is sound , and a disorder by which the judgment itself is impaired . This distinction was made to me by the late Professor Gaubius of Leyden , physician to the Prince of Orange , in a ...
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... imagination by his mother , who continued her pious cares with assiduity , but , in his opinion , not with judgment . Sunday , " said he , " was a heavy day with me when I was a boy . My mother confined me on that day , and made me read ...
... imagination by his mother , who continued her pious cares with assiduity , but , in his opinion , not with judgment . Sunday , " said he , " was a heavy day with me when I was a boy . My mother confined me on that day , and made me read ...
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... imagination . He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears , and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants . " The reader will here find ...
... imagination . He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears , and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants . " The reader will here find ...
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... imagining they stood still , 1 that I conceived them to have a good deal beforehand , and therefore was less anxious in providing them more . But if ever they stand still on my account , it must doubtless be charged to me ; and whatever ...
... imagining they stood still , 1 that I conceived them to have a good deal beforehand , and therefore was less anxious in providing them more . But if ever they stand still on my account , it must doubtless be charged to me ; and whatever ...
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