THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.1823 |
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... excellence , but that he may stop with honour at the second or third : though therefore my performance should fall below the excellence of other dictionaries , I may obtain , at least , the praise of having endeavoured well ; nor shall ...
... excellence , but that he may stop with honour at the second or third : though therefore my performance should fall below the excellence of other dictionaries , I may obtain , at least , the praise of having endeavoured well ; nor shall ...
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... excellence excited my veneration , when my memory supplied me , from late books , with an example that was wanting , or when my heart , in the tenderness of friendship , solicited admission for a favourite name . So far have I been from ...
... excellence excited my veneration , when my memory supplied me , from late books , with an example that was wanting , or when my heart , in the tenderness of friendship , solicited admission for a favourite name . So far have I been from ...
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... excellence and dignity of courage , a glittering idea which has dazzled mankind from age to age , and animated sometimes the housebreaker ; and sometimes the conqueror : but this sophism Macbeth has for ever destroyed by distinguishing ...
... excellence and dignity of courage , a glittering idea which has dazzled mankind from age to age , and animated sometimes the housebreaker ; and sometimes the conqueror : but this sophism Macbeth has for ever destroyed by distinguishing ...
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... excellence of Shakespeare , that he drew his scenes from nature , and from life . He copied the manners of the world then passing before him , and has more allusions than other poets to the traditions and superstition of the vulgar ...
... excellence of Shakespeare , that he drew his scenes from nature , and from life . He copied the manners of the world then passing before him , and has more allusions than other poets to the traditions and superstition of the vulgar ...
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... to admire indiscriminately , whatever has been long preserved , without con- sidering that time has sometimes co - operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour past than present excellence ; and the mind con- templates.
... to admire indiscriminately , whatever has been long preserved , without con- sidering that time has sometimes co - operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour past than present excellence ; and the mind con- templates.
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