Life of Johnson ...Harper, 1891 |
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... give the bare names as they are ; but in poetry , and in prose of any elegance in the writing , they require to have inflection given to them . His book of the Dialects ' is a sad heap of confusion ; the only way to write on them is to ...
... give the bare names as they are ; but in poetry , and in prose of any elegance in the writing , they require to have inflection given to them . His book of the Dialects ' is a sad heap of confusion ; the only way to write on them is to ...
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... give away five hundred pounds in a year to those that importune in the streets , and not do any good ' . ' ' There is nothing more likely to betray a man into ab- surdity than condescension ; when he seems to suppose his understanding ...
... give away five hundred pounds in a year to those that importune in the streets , and not do any good ' . ' ' There is nothing more likely to betray a man into ab- surdity than condescension ; when he seems to suppose his understanding ...
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... give way to such a fancy . At one time of my life I had taken it into my head that it was not wholesome to study between breakfast and dinner ' . " ' Mr. Beauclerk one day repeated to Dr. Johnson Pope's lines , " Let modest Foster , if ...
... give way to such a fancy . At one time of my life I had taken it into my head that it was not wholesome to study between breakfast and dinner ' . " ' Mr. Beauclerk one day repeated to Dr. Johnson Pope's lines , " Let modest Foster , if ...
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... give Mr. Dossie his vote to be a member of this Society , paid up an arrear which had run on for two years . this occasion he mentioned a circumstance as characteristick On • 1 Dr. Percy told Malone ' that they all at the Club had such ...
... give Mr. Dossie his vote to be a member of this Society , paid up an arrear which had run on for two years . this occasion he mentioned a circumstance as characteristick On • 1 Dr. Percy told Malone ' that they all at the Club had such ...
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... give credit to a clergy- man ' . ' 1999 ' He used to quote , with great warmth , the saying of Aristotle recorded by Diogenes Laertius ; that there was the same difference between one learned and unlearned , as between the living and ...
... give credit to a clergy- man ' . ' 1999 ' He used to quote , with great warmth , the saying of Aristotle recorded by Diogenes Laertius ; that there was the same difference between one learned and unlearned , as between the living and ...
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