Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1927 |
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... thought . Long since I learn'd to slight this fleeting breath , And view with cheerful eyes approaching death The inexorable sisters have decreed That Priam's house , and Priam's self shall bleed : The day will come , in which proud ...
... thought . Long since I learn'd to slight this fleeting breath , And view with cheerful eyes approaching death The inexorable sisters have decreed That Priam's house , and Priam's self shall bleed : The day will come , in which proud ...
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... thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority . ' The Bishop of Dromore observes in a letter to me , The pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned ...
... thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority . ' The Bishop of Dromore observes in a letter to me , The pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned ...
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... thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but his friends who were about him very properly dissuaded him ... thought the defects of his own College ; and , I have , from the information of Dr. Taylor , a very strong instance ...
... thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but his friends who were about him very properly dissuaded him ... thought the defects of his own College ; and , I have , from the information of Dr. Taylor , a very strong instance ...
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... thought an abridgment and translation of it from the French into English might be an useful and profitable ... thoughts of another person , insensibly follows their cast , and , as it were , runs into a mould that is ready prepared ...
... thought an abridgment and translation of it from the French into English might be an useful and profitable ... thoughts of another person , insensibly follows their cast , and , as it were , runs into a mould that is ready prepared ...
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... thought that those who devote themselves to this employment , and do their duty with diligence and success , are entitled to very high respect from the community , as Johnson himself often maintained . Yet I am of opinion that the ...
... thought that those who devote themselves to this employment , and do their duty with diligence and success , are entitled to very high respect from the community , as Johnson himself often maintained . Yet I am of opinion that the ...
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