Life of Johnson ...Harper, 1891 |
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... kind communications have been ' Nothing can compensate for this want this year of all years . Johnson's health was better than it had been for long , and his mind happier perhaps than it had ever been . The knowledge that in his Lives ...
... kind communications have been ' Nothing can compensate for this want this year of all years . Johnson's health was better than it had been for long , and his mind happier perhaps than it had ever been . The knowledge that in his Lives ...
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... kind of impertinence more justly censurable than his who is always labouring to level thoughts to intellects higher than his own ; who apologises for every word which his own narrow- ness of converse inclines him to think unusual ...
... kind of impertinence more justly censurable than his who is always labouring to level thoughts to intellects higher than his own ; who apologises for every word which his own narrow- ness of converse inclines him to think unusual ...
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... kind of cumbrous splendour which we wish away . . . . The mind of the writer seems to work with unnat- ural violence . " Double , double , toil and trouble . " He has a kind of strutting dignity , and is tall by walking on tiptoe . His ...
... kind of cumbrous splendour which we wish away . . . . The mind of the writer seems to work with unnat- ural violence . " Double , double , toil and trouble . " He has a kind of strutting dignity , and is tall by walking on tiptoe . His ...
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... kind of open discussion " . " ' ' We may fairly institute a criticism between Shakspeare spect to Frenchmen he rather laughed at himself , but it was insur- mountable . He considered every foreigner as a fool till they had convinced him ...
... kind of open discussion " . " ' ' We may fairly institute a criticism between Shakspeare spect to Frenchmen he rather laughed at himself , but it was insur- mountable . He considered every foreigner as a fool till they had convinced him ...
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... kind of composition a nearer approach to Nature is intended . Yet there are 16 " ' Somebody was praising Corneille one day in opposition to Shake- speare . ' Corneille is to Shakespeare , " replied Mr. Johnson , " as a clipped hedge is ...
... kind of composition a nearer approach to Nature is intended . Yet there are 16 " ' Somebody was praising Corneille one day in opposition to Shake- speare . ' Corneille is to Shakespeare , " replied Mr. Johnson , " as a clipped hedge is ...
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