Life of Johnson, Volumen2H. Frowde, 1904 |
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... authour could justify him- self by proving the fact . JOHNSON . ' Sir , it is of so much more consequence that truth should be told , than that indi- viduals should not be made uneasy , that it is much better that the law does not ...
... authour could justify him- self by proving the fact . JOHNSON . ' Sir , it is of so much more consequence that truth should be told , than that indi- viduals should not be made uneasy , that it is much better that the law does not ...
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... authour should be obliged to shew some sort of evidence , though he would not require a strict legal proof : but Johnson firmly and resolutely opposed any restraint whatever , as adverse to a free investi- gation of the characters of ...
... authour should be obliged to shew some sort of evidence , though he would not require a strict legal proof : but Johnson firmly and resolutely opposed any restraint whatever , as adverse to a free investi- gation of the characters of ...
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... authour of a Hudibrastick version of Maphæus's Canto , in addition to the Æneid ; of some poems in Dodsley's Collections ; and various other small pieces ; but being a very modest man , never put his name to anything . He shewed me a ...
... authour of a Hudibrastick version of Maphæus's Canto , in addition to the Æneid ; of some poems in Dodsley's Collections ; and various other small pieces ; but being a very modest man , never put his name to anything . He shewed me a ...
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... authour of the Dictionary of ancient Geo- graphy , came in . He mentioned that he had been forty years absent from Scotland . Ah , Boswell ! ( said Johnson , smil- ing , ) what would you give to be forty years from Scotland ? ' I said ...
... authour of the Dictionary of ancient Geo- graphy , came in . He mentioned that he had been forty years absent from Scotland . Ah , Boswell ! ( said Johnson , smil- ing , ) what would you give to be forty years from Scotland ? ' I said ...
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... authour might be used in the same manner ; and that it was pleasing to see the variety of an authour's compositions , at different periods . We talked of Flatman's Poems ; and Mrs. Thrale observed , that Pope had partly borrowed from ...
... authour might be used in the same manner ; and that it was pleasing to see the variety of an authour's compositions , at different periods . We talked of Flatman's Poems ; and Mrs. Thrale observed , that Pope had partly borrowed from ...
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