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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... remark on the galling Johnson's imitation is , meanness and contempt annexed to poverty , " Of all the griefs that harass the distrest , Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest . " Oldham's , though less elegant , is more just ...
... remark on the galling Johnson's imitation is , meanness and contempt annexed to poverty , " Of all the griefs that harass the distrest , Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest . " Oldham's , though less elegant , is more just ...
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... remark to me ; and , in support of it , quoted from the poem entitled The Bastard , " a line in which the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , 3rd edit . p . 35.— BOSWELL . " Both The emphasis should be equally upon shalt and not , as ...
... remark to me ; and , in support of it , quoted from the poem entitled The Bastard , " a line in which the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , 3rd edit . p . 35.— BOSWELL . " Both The emphasis should be equally upon shalt and not , as ...
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... remark- able , that he was so attentive in the choice of the passages in which words were authorised , that one may read page after page of his Dictionary with improvement and pleasure ; and it should not pass unobserved , that he has ...
... remark- able , that he was so attentive in the choice of the passages in which words were authorised , that one may read page after page of his Dictionary with improvement and pleasure ; and it should not pass unobserved , that he has ...
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... remark of his , which I have had occa- sion to quote elsewhere , † that " a man may write at any time , if he will set himself doggedly to it , " for , notwithstanding his constitutional indolence , his depression of spirits , and his ...
... remark of his , which I have had occa- sion to quote elsewhere , † that " a man may write at any time , if he will set himself doggedly to it , " for , notwithstanding his constitutional indolence , his depression of spirits , and his ...
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... remarks just ; -man , a social , not steady nature . Drawn to man by words , repelled by passions . Orb . drawn by ... remark * Lib . xil . 96. " In Tuccam æmulum omnium sucum studiorum . ” — MALONE . letter from you without great ...
... remarks just ; -man , a social , not steady nature . Drawn to man by words , repelled by passions . Orb . drawn by ... remark * Lib . xil . 96. " In Tuccam æmulum omnium sucum studiorum . ” — MALONE . letter from you without great ...
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