The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page 30
... expressed the highest admiration , Well , sir , ' said I , I have omitted every other line . ' 999 · I related a dispute between Goldsmith and Mr. Robert Dodsley , one day when they and I were dining at Tom Davies's , in 1762. Goldsmith ...
... expressed the highest admiration , Well , sir , ' said I , I have omitted every other line . ' 999 · I related a dispute between Goldsmith and Mr. Robert Dodsley , one day when they and I were dining at Tom Davies's , in 1762. Goldsmith ...
Page 32
... expression , which was so forcible and brilliant , that Mr. Cradock whispered me , " O that his words were written in a book ! " I observed , the great defect of the tragedy of Othello was , that it had not a moral ; for that no man ...
... expression , which was so forcible and brilliant , that Mr. Cradock whispered me , " O that his words were written in a book ! " I observed , the great defect of the tragedy of Othello was , that it had not a moral ; for that no man ...
Page 39
... expressed a wish to go and live three years at Otaheité , or New Zealand , in order to obtain a full acquaintance with people so totally different from all that we have ever known , and be satisfied what pure nature can do for man ...
... expressed a wish to go and live three years at Otaheité , or New Zealand , in order to obtain a full acquaintance with people so totally different from all that we have ever known , and be satisfied what pure nature can do for man ...
Page 63
... expression and the following . After all , I cannot help entertaining some doubt whether the words “ Difficile est proprie communia dicere , " may not have been thrown in by Horace to form a separate article in a choice of difficulties ...
... expression and the following . After all , I cannot help entertaining some doubt whether the words “ Difficile est proprie communia dicere , " may not have been thrown in by Horace to form a separate article in a choice of difficulties ...
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... expressed , at the age of sixty - seven , is admirable and encouraging ; and it must impress all the thinking part of my readers with a consolatory confidence in habitual devotion , when they see a man of such en- larged intellectual ...
... expressed , at the age of sixty - seven , is admirable and encouraging ; and it must impress all the thinking part of my readers with a consolatory confidence in habitual devotion , when they see a man of such en- larged intellectual ...
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