The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprising a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons ...Routledge, 1867 - 526 pages |
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... once himself of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , " They never thought to raise me by com- paring me to any one ; they never said Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ; but such a one is as good a scholar as ...
... once himself of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , " They never thought to raise me by com- paring me to any one ; they never said Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ; but such a one is as good a scholar as ...
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... once form'd , all counsel comes too late , He flies to press , and hurries on his fate ; Swiftly he sees the imagin'd laurels spread , And feels the unfading wreath surround his head . Warn'd by another's fate , vain youth , be wise ...
... once form'd , all counsel comes too late , He flies to press , and hurries on his fate ; Swiftly he sees the imagin'd laurels spread , And feels the unfading wreath surround his head . Warn'd by another's fate , vain youth , be wise ...
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... once observed to me , that Johnson knew more books than any man alive . " He had a peculiar facility in seizing at once what was valuable in any book , without submitting to the labour of perusing it from beginning to end . He had ...
... once observed to me , that Johnson knew more books than any man alive . " He had a peculiar facility in seizing at once what was valuable in any book , without submitting to the labour of perusing it from beginning to end . He had ...
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... once . In a man whom religious education has secured from licentious indulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized him , is exceedingly strong ; being unimpaired by dissipation and totally concentrated in one object . This ...
... once . In a man whom religious education has secured from licentious indulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized him , is exceedingly strong ; being unimpaired by dissipation and totally concentrated in one object . This ...
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... once calm and clear : but that a mind gloomy and im- petuous like that of Johnson , cannot be fixed for any length of time in minute attention , and must be so frequently irritated by unavoidable slow- ness and error in the advances of ...
... once calm and clear : but that a mind gloomy and im- petuous like that of Johnson , cannot be fixed for any length of time in minute attention , and must be so frequently irritated by unavoidable slow- ness and error in the advances of ...
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