Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1927 |
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... believe , entirely groundless . I have been assured , that Johnson said he was not so much as acquainted with Savage when he wrote his London . If the departure mentioned in it was the departure of Savage , the event was not antedated ...
... believe , entirely groundless . I have been assured , that Johnson said he was not so much as acquainted with Savage when he wrote his London . If the departure mentioned in it was the departure of Savage , the event was not antedated ...
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... believe , who have , or think they have , a very small share of vanity . Such may speak of their literary fame in a decorous style of diffidence . But I confess , that I am so formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the ...
... believe , who have , or think they have , a very small share of vanity . Such may speak of their literary fame in a decorous style of diffidence . But I confess , that I am so formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the ...
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... believe he studied hard . I never knew a man who studied hard . I conclude , in- deed , from the effects , that some men have studied hard , as Bentley and Clarke . ' Trying him by that criterion upon which he formed his judgement of ...
... believe he studied hard . I never knew a man who studied hard . I conclude , in- deed , from the effects , that some men have studied hard , as Bentley and Clarke . ' Trying him by that criterion upon which he formed his judgement of ...
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... believe in every other translation , there is in the work itself no vestige of the translator's own style ; for the language of translation being adapted to the thoughts of another person , insensibly follows their cast , and , as it ...
... believe in every other translation , there is in the work itself no vestige of the translator's own style ; for the language of translation being adapted to the thoughts of another person , insensibly follows their cast , and , as it ...
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... believe , abstained entirely from fermented liquors a practice to which he rigidly conformed for many years together , at different periods of his life . His Ofellus in the Art of Living in London , I have heard him relate , was an ...
... believe , abstained entirely from fermented liquors a practice to which he rigidly conformed for many years together , at different periods of his life . His Ofellus in the Art of Living in London , I have heard him relate , was an ...
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