The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... expressed with colloquial latitude , was substantially true ; one of these degrading connexions was considered essential to those who pre tended to the title of a man of fashion . - ED . ] Mæcenas has others as good as he , or others E ...
... expressed with colloquial latitude , was substantially true ; one of these degrading connexions was considered essential to those who pre tended to the title of a man of fashion . - ED . ] Mæcenas has others as good as he , or others E ...
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... and such accurate force of expression , whether gay or pathetical , as , in the Editor's humble judgment , no poet , except Shakspeare , has excelled . — ED . ] lines when he thought he could give the writer's meaning 54 1783. - ETAT . 74 .
... and such accurate force of expression , whether gay or pathetical , as , in the Editor's humble judgment , no poet , except Shakspeare , has excelled . — ED . ] lines when he thought he could give the writer's meaning 54 1783. - ETAT . 74 .
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... expressed himself to the same purpose concerning another law - lord , who , it seems , once took a fancy to associate with the wits of London ; but with so little success , that Foote said , " What can he mean by coming among us ? He is ...
... expressed himself to the same purpose concerning another law - lord , who , it seems , once took a fancy to associate with the wits of London ; but with so little success , that Foote said , " What can he mean by coming among us ? He is ...
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... expression ; by which means , what had been ori- ginally effort became familiar and easy . The conse- quence of this , Sir Joshua observed , was , that his common conversation in all companies was such as to secure him universal ...
... expression ; by which means , what had been ori- ginally effort became familiar and easy . The conse- quence of this , Sir Joshua observed , was , that his common conversation in all companies was such as to secure him universal ...
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... expression was very remarkable . He disapproved of a parenthesis ; and I believe in all his voluminous writings , not half a dozen of them will be found . He never used the phrases the former and the latter , having observed , that they ...
... expression was very remarkable . He disapproved of a parenthesis ; and I believe in all his voluminous writings , not half a dozen of them will be found . He never used the phrases the former and the latter , having observed , that they ...
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