Life of SAMUEL JOHNSON LL.D1952 |
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Page 35
... Verses , a backwardness to de- termine their degrees of merit is not peculiar to " They afterwards appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine , viii , 486 , with this title : Verses to Lady Firebrace , at Bury Assizes . Du Halde's Description ...
... Verses , a backwardness to de- termine their degrees of merit is not peculiar to " They afterwards appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine , viii , 486 , with this title : Verses to Lady Firebrace , at Bury Assizes . Du Halde's Description ...
Page 390
... verses , which he thought were of Italian invention from Maccaroni ; but on being informed that this would infer that they were the most common and easy verses , mac- caroni being the most ordinary and simple food , he was at a loss ...
... verses , which he thought were of Italian invention from Maccaroni ; but on being informed that this would infer that they were the most common and easy verses , mac- caroni being the most ordinary and simple food , he was at a loss ...
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... verses ; that is to say , compared with excellence , nothing ; but , very well , for the person who wrote them . I am vexed at being shewn verses in that manner . " MISS REYNOLDS . " But if they should be good , why not give them hearty ...
... verses ; that is to say , compared with excellence , nothing ; but , very well , for the person who wrote them . I am vexed at being shewn verses in that manner . " MISS REYNOLDS . " But if they should be good , why not give them hearty ...
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