Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.J.M.Dent, 1927 |
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... language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then soliciting employment among the booksellers , was engaged to correct the style and diction of the whole work , then intended to make only four volumes ...
... language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then soliciting employment among the booksellers , was engaged to correct the style and diction of the whole work , then intended to make only four volumes ...
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... language is the paper on Novelty , yet we do not hear it talked of . It was written by Grove , a dissenting teacher . " He would not , I perceived , call him a clergyman , though he was candid enough to allow very great merit to his ...
... language is the paper on Novelty , yet we do not hear it talked of . It was written by Grove , a dissenting teacher . " He would not , I perceived , call him a clergyman , though he was candid enough to allow very great merit to his ...
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... language , if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation . But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written , we learn the language . " A ...
... language , if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation . But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written , we learn the language . " A ...
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... language , to which his Works are likely to be so lasting an Omoment , Whicheve also know to have been the opinion ... language of the country of which a learned man was a native , is not the language fit for his epitaph , which should ...
... language , to which his Works are likely to be so lasting an Omoment , Whicheve also know to have been the opinion ... language of the country of which a learned man was a native , is not the language fit for his epitaph , which should ...
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... language , and in the language of the country ; so that they might have the advantage of being more universally understood , and at the same time be secured of classical stability . I cannot , however , but be of opinion , that it is ...
... language , and in the language of the country ; so that they might have the advantage of being more universally understood , and at the same time be secured of classical stability . I cannot , however , but be of opinion , that it is ...
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