Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
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... shew you that I have done tolerably ; but it is hardly credi- ble what ground I go over , and what a variety of men and manners I contemplate in a day ; and all the time I myself am pars magna , for my exuberant spirits will not let me ...
... shew you that I have done tolerably ; but it is hardly credi- ble what ground I go over , and what a variety of men and manners I contemplate in a day ; and all the time I myself am pars magna , for my exuberant spirits will not let me ...
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... . . London and Southill . London . • London and Oxford . ' To shew what wisdom and what sense can do , The poet sets Ulysses in our view . ' Francis . Horace , Ep . i . 2. 17 . When 14 Advertisement to the Second Edition . When the great.
... . . London and Southill . London . • London and Oxford . ' To shew what wisdom and what sense can do , The poet sets Ulysses in our view . ' Francis . Horace , Ep . i . 2. 17 . When 14 Advertisement to the Second Edition . When the great.
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... shew , Around them pleasures wait , and joys for ever new . But cruel virgins meet severer fates ; Expell'd and exil'd from the blissful seats , To dismal realms , and regions void of peace , Where furies ever howl , and serpents hiss ...
... shew , Around them pleasures wait , and joys for ever new . But cruel virgins meet severer fates ; Expell'd and exil'd from the blissful seats , To dismal realms , and regions void of peace , Where furies ever howl , and serpents hiss ...
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... shews that for a short time he was tutor to the son of Mr. Whitby of Heywood . 1 Bishop Hurd does not praise Blackwall , but the Rev. Mr. Bud- worth , headmaster of the grammar school at Brewood , who had himself been bred under ...
... shews that for a short time he was tutor to the son of Mr. Whitby of Heywood . 1 Bishop Hurd does not praise Blackwall , but the Rev. Mr. Bud- worth , headmaster of the grammar school at Brewood , who had himself been bred under ...
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... shews his fondness for modern Latin poetry . He says : - Pope had sought for images and sentiments in a region not known to have been explored by many other of the Eng- lish writers ; he had consulted the modern writers of Latin poetry ...
... shews his fondness for modern Latin poetry . He says : - Pope had sought for images and sentiments in a region not known to have been explored by many other of the Eng- lish writers ; he had consulted the modern writers of Latin poetry ...
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