The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... natural fitness , but because God wills it to be right ; " and it is certainly so , because he has predisposed the relations of things so as that which he wills must be right . - BOSWELL . z I hope the authority of the great master of ...
... natural fitness , but because God wills it to be right ; " and it is certainly so , because he has predisposed the relations of things so as that which he wills must be right . - BOSWELL . z I hope the authority of the great master of ...
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... nature [ easily ] readily supplies . [ His ] Some applications [ are sometimes ] may be thought too remote and unconsequential . “ His images are [ sometimes confused ] not always dis- tinct . " Against his life of Milton , the hounds ...
... nature [ easily ] readily supplies . [ His ] Some applications [ are sometimes ] may be thought too remote and unconsequential . “ His images are [ sometimes confused ] not always dis- tinct . " Against his life of Milton , the hounds ...
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... nature is capable ; imaged the delicate gion : his piety was sincere , and sometimes ardent ; and his zeal for the interests of virtue was often manifested in his conversation and in his writings . The same energy which was displayed in ...
... nature is capable ; imaged the delicate gion : his piety was sincere , and sometimes ardent ; and his zeal for the interests of virtue was often manifested in his conversation and in his writings . The same energy which was displayed in ...
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... natural instances of the effect of blank verse occurred to the late earl of Hopetoun . His lordship observed one of his shepherds poring in the fields upon Milton's Paradise Lost ; and having asked him what book it was , the man ...
... natural instances of the effect of blank verse occurred to the late earl of Hopetoun . His lordship observed one of his shepherds poring in the fields upon Milton's Paradise Lost ; and having asked him what book it was , the man ...
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... nature still I am ; Be thine the glory , and be mine the shame . Good life be now my task : my doubts are done ; What more could shock my faith than Three in One ? In drawing Dryden's character , Johnson has given , though I suppose ...
... nature still I am ; Be thine the glory , and be mine the shame . Good life be now my task : my doubts are done ; What more could shock my faith than Three in One ? In drawing Dryden's character , Johnson has given , though I suppose ...
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