Life of Johnson ...Harper, 1891 |
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... hands . Babies do not want , " said he , “ to hear about babies ; they like to be told of giants and castles , and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds . " When I would urge the numerous editions of Tommy ...
... hands . Babies do not want , " said he , “ to hear about babies ; they like to be told of giants and castles , and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds . " When I would urge the numerous editions of Tommy ...
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... hand . ' 2 See ante , i . 377 . 1 See post , iv . 50 . This assertion concerning Johnson's insensibility to the pathetick powers of Otway , is too round . I once asked him , whether he did not think Otway frequently tender : when he ...
... hand . ' 2 See ante , i . 377 . 1 See post , iv . 50 . This assertion concerning Johnson's insensibility to the pathetick powers of Otway , is too round . I once asked him , whether he did not think Otway frequently tender : when he ...
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... hand , or more wise when he had ' . " ' He told in his lively manner the following literary anecdote : " Green and Guthrie ' , an Irishman and a Scotch- man , undertook a translation of Duhalde's History of China . Green said of Guthrie ...
... hand , or more wise when he had ' . " ' He told in his lively manner the following literary anecdote : " Green and Guthrie ' , an Irishman and a Scotch- man , undertook a translation of Duhalde's History of China . Green said of Guthrie ...
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... hand of Mrs. Thrale as one of his copyists of select passages . But he was princi- pally indebted to my steady friend Mr. Isaac Reed , of Sta- ple - inn , whose extensive and accurate knowledge of English literary history I do not ...
... hand of Mrs. Thrale as one of his copyists of select passages . But he was princi- pally indebted to my steady friend Mr. Isaac Reed , of Sta- ple - inn , whose extensive and accurate knowledge of English literary history I do not ...
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... hand of Johnson ? I shall select only the following passage con- cerning Paradise Lost : ' Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Mil- ton surveyed the silent progress of his work , and marked his repu- tation stealing ...
... hand of Johnson ? I shall select only the following passage con- cerning Paradise Lost : ' Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Mil- ton surveyed the silent progress of his work , and marked his repu- tation stealing ...
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