Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1927 |
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... wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's ...
... wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's ...
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... wish that his life should be written . The debates in Parliament , which were brought home and digested by Guthrie , whose memory , though sur- passed by others who have since followed him in the same department , was yet very quick and ...
... wish that his life should be written . The debates in Parliament , which were brought home and digested by Guthrie , whose memory , though sur- passed by others who have since followed him in the same department , was yet very quick and ...
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James Boswell. 1738 ] HIS WISH TO PRACTISE LAW 91 man , without my adding any more to the trouble I have already given you , than assuring you that I am , with great truth , Sir , your faithful servant , ' Trentham , Aug. 1 , 1739 ...
James Boswell. 1738 ] HIS WISH TO PRACTISE LAW 91 man , without my adding any more to the trouble I have already given you , than assuring you that I am , with great truth , Sir , your faithful servant , ' Trentham , Aug. 1 , 1739 ...
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... Wishes has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his London . More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of London , than with the profound reflection of The Vanity of Human Wishes ...
... Wishes has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his London . More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of London , than with the profound reflection of The Vanity of Human Wishes ...
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... wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid , and he never stag- nates . His sentences have neither studied amplitude , nor affected brevity : his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain ...
... wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid , and he never stag- nates . His sentences have neither studied amplitude , nor affected brevity : his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain ...
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