Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1893 - 718 páginas |
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... pleasure in celebrating the distinguished merit of a contemporary . mixed with a certain degree of vanity , not altogether inexcusable , in appearing fully sensible of it , where can I find one , in complimenting whom I can with more ...
... pleasure in celebrating the distinguished merit of a contemporary . mixed with a certain degree of vanity , not altogether inexcusable , in appearing fully sensible of it , where can I find one , in complimenting whom I can with more ...
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... pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and 1 I had this anecdote from Dr. Adams , and Dr. Johnson confirmed it . Bramston , in his Man of Taste , has the same thought : " Sure , of all blockheads , scholars are the worst . " B. 19 ...
... pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and 1 I had this anecdote from Dr. Adams , and Dr. Johnson confirmed it . Bramston , in his Man of Taste , has the same thought : " Sure , of all blockheads , scholars are the worst . " B. 19 ...
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... pleasure when a child ; and I believe it had much influence on my future wishes to visit the Levant , and gave perhaps the oriental colouring which is ob- served in my poetry . " Byron's Life and Works , ix . 141 , Ed . 1832 . THE ART ...
... pleasure when a child ; and I believe it had much influence on my future wishes to visit the Levant , and gave perhaps the oriental colouring which is ob- served in my poetry . " Byron's Life and Works , ix . 141 , Ed . 1832 . THE ART ...
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... pleasure so soon ; for a pleasure I shall always think it , to converse in any manner with an ingenious and candid man ; but having the inclosed poem in my hands to dispose of for the benefit of the author , ( of whose abilities I shall ...
... pleasure so soon ; for a pleasure I shall always think it , to converse in any manner with an ingenious and candid man ; but having the inclosed poem in my hands to dispose of for the benefit of the author , ( of whose abilities I shall ...
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... pleasure could easily be effaced . I have seen of animated relaxation . He therefore several of them , in which that trouble had not only exerted his talents in occasional not been taken ; so that they were just as composition , very ...
... pleasure could easily be effaced . I have seen of animated relaxation . He therefore several of them , in which that trouble had not only exerted his talents in occasional not been taken ; so that they were just as composition , very ...
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