Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1893 - 718 páginas |
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... wish to depreciate him , should , since his death , have laid hold of this circumstance , and insisted upon it with very unfair aggravation . Amidst the oppression and distraction of a disease , which very few have felt in its full ...
... wish to depreciate him , should , since his death , have laid hold of this circumstance , and insisted upon it with very unfair aggravation . Amidst the oppression and distraction of a disease , which very few have felt in its full ...
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... WISHES , being the Tenth Satire of Juvenal imitated . ” * He , I believe , composed it the preceding year . 2 Mrs. Johnson , for the sake of country air , had lodgings at Hampstead , to which he resorted occasionally , and there the ...
... WISHES , being the Tenth Satire of Juvenal imitated . ” * He , I believe , composed it the preceding year . 2 Mrs. Johnson , for the sake of country air , had lodgings at Hampstead , to which he resorted occasionally , and there the ...
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... wishes rise , No cries invoke the mercy of the skies ? Inquirer , cease ; petitions yet remain Which Heaven may hear , nor deem Religion vain . Still raise for good the supplicating voice , For love , which scarce collective man can ...
... wishes rise , No cries invoke the mercy of the skies ? Inquirer , cease ; petitions yet remain Which Heaven may hear , nor deem Religion vain . Still raise for good the supplicating voice , For love , which scarce collective man can ...
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... wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid , and he never stagnates . His sentences have neither studied amplitude , nor affected brevity : his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain an ...
... wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid , and he never stagnates . His sentences have neither studied amplitude , nor affected brevity : his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain an ...
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... wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vain- queur de la terre ; -that I might obtain that re- gard for ... wishes even for literary distinction stood thus : " Yet think what ills the scholar's life assail , Toil , envy , want ...
... wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vain- queur de la terre ; -that I might obtain that re- gard for ... wishes even for literary distinction stood thus : " Yet think what ills the scholar's life assail , Toil , envy , want ...
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