Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1927 |
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... appeared to have more merit in the execution of the work , I have resolved to adopt and enlarge upon the excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is necessary to explain , connect , and supply , I ...
... appeared to have more merit in the execution of the work , I have resolved to adopt and enlarge upon the excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is necessary to explain , connect , and supply , I ...
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... appeared strange to them ; but he behaved modestly , and sat silent , till upon something which occurred in the course of con- versation , he suddenly struck in and quoted Macrobius ; and thus he gave the first impression of that more ...
... appeared strange to them ; but he behaved modestly , and sat silent , till upon something which occurred in the course of con- versation , he suddenly struck in and quoted Macrobius ; and thus he gave the first impression of that more ...
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... appeared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poeticks . Ex alieno ingenio Poeta , ex suo tantum versificator . 1 Oxford , 20th March , 1776 . 2 It ought to be remembered that Dr. Johnson was apt , in his literary as well as moral ...
... appeared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poeticks . Ex alieno ingenio Poeta , ex suo tantum versificator . 1 Oxford , 20th March , 1776 . 2 It ought to be remembered that Dr. Johnson was apt , in his literary as well as moral ...
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... appeared grand and brilliant , and impressed all around him with the truth of Virgil's noble sentiment- " Igneus est ollis vigor et cœlestis origo . ' The history of his mind as to religion is an important article . I have mentioned the ...
... appeared grand and brilliant , and impressed all around him with the truth of Virgil's noble sentiment- " Igneus est ollis vigor et cœlestis origo . ' The history of his mind as to religion is an important article . I have mentioned the ...
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... appeared no means by which he could maintain himself . In the December of this year his father died . The state of poverty in which he died , appears from a note in one of Johnson's little diaries of the following year , which strongly ...
... appeared no means by which he could maintain himself . In the December of this year his father died . The state of poverty in which he died , appears from a note in one of Johnson's little diaries of the following year , which strongly ...
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