 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 páginas
...and to mend them was his laftk From his attention to poetry he was never diverted: If converfation offered any thing that could be improved, he committed it to paper ; if a thought, or perhaps an expreffion more happy than was common, rofe to his mind, he was careful to write it ; an independent... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 páginas
...and to mend them was his laft. From his attention to poetry he was never diverted. If converfation offered any thing that could be improved, he committed it to paper ; if a thought, or perhaps an expreffion more happy than was common, rofe to his mind, he was careful to write it ; an independent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 418 páginas
...was his luft. From his attention to poetry he was never diverted. If converfation offered POPE. -259 any thing that could be improved, he committed it to paper ; if a thought, or perhaps an expreffion more happy than was common, rofe to his mind, he was careful to write it ; an independent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 páginas
...and to mend them was his laft. From his attention to poetry he was never diverted. ^''If converfation offered any thing that could be improved, he committed it to paper; if a thought, or perhaps an exprefilon more happy than was common, role to his mind, he was careful to write it; an independent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 páginas
...and to mend them was his laft. From his attention to poetry he was never diverted. If ccnverfation offered any thing that could be improved, he committed it to paper; if a thought, or perhaps an expreflion more happy than was common, rofe to his mind, he was careful to write it; an independent... | |
 | 1793 - 738 páginas
...and to mend them was his lait. " From his attention to poetry he was never diverted. If converlation offered any thing that could be improved, he committed it to paper; if a thought, or perhaps an expreffion more happy than was common role to his mind, he was careful to write it ; an independent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 páginas
...when excellence could be attained. He considered poetry as the business of his life; and, however lie might seem to lament his occupation, he followed it...his last. From his attention to poetry he w"as never diveited. If conversation offered any thing that could'be improved, he committed it to paper; if a... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 páginas
...compositions to his friends, and was never content with mediocrity when excellence could be attained. He considered poetry as the business of his life;...his last. From his attention to poetry he was never diveited. If conversation offered any thing that could he improved, he committed it to paper ; if a... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 páginas
...change his expreiTions : ' From ' his attention to poetry he was never di* verted. If converfation offered any thing ' that could be improved, he committed it ' to paper. If a thought, or perhaps an ex' preflion more happy than was common, ' role to his mind, he was careful to write * it ; an independant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 páginas
...compositions to his friends, and was never content with mediocrity, when excellence could be attained. He considered poetry as the business of his life ;...From his attention to poetry he was never diverted. Jf conversation offered any thing that could be improved, he committed it to paper ; if a thought,... | |
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He considered poetry as the business of his life, and, however he might seem to lament his occupation, he followed it with constancy: to make verses was his first labour, and to mend them was his last. 
