THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.1823 |
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... easily reaches heights which performance never will attain ; and when she has mounted the summit of perfection , derides her follower , who dies in the pursuit . Not therefore to raise expectation , but to repress it , I here lay before ...
... easily reaches heights which performance never will attain ; and when she has mounted the summit of perfection , derides her follower , who dies in the pursuit . Not therefore to raise expectation , but to repress it , I here lay before ...
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... easily reduced to rules . Thus there is no antecedent reason for difference of accent in the words dolorous and sono- rous ; yet of the one Milton gives the sound in this line : He pass'd o'er many a region dolorous ; and that of the ...
... easily reduced to rules . Thus there is no antecedent reason for difference of accent in the words dolorous and sono- rous ; yet of the one Milton gives the sound in this line : He pass'd o'er many a region dolorous ; and that of the ...
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... easily deduced from a Saxon ori- ginal , I shall not often enquire further , since we know not the parent of the Saxon dialect ; but when it is borrowed from the French , I shall shew whence the French is apparently derived . Where a ...
... easily deduced from a Saxon ori- ginal , I shall not often enquire further , since we know not the parent of the Saxon dialect ; but when it is borrowed from the French , I shall shew whence the French is apparently derived . Where a ...
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... easily they may give occasion to the contemptuous merriment of sportive idleness , and the gloomy cen- sures of arrogant stupidity ; but dulness it is easy to despise , and laughter it is easy to repay . I shall not be solicitous what ...
... easily they may give occasion to the contemptuous merriment of sportive idleness , and the gloomy cen- sures of arrogant stupidity ; but dulness it is easy to despise , and laughter it is easy to repay . I shall not be solicitous what ...
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... easily regret an attempt which has procured me the honour of ap- pearing thus publicly , My Lord , Your Lordship's most obedient , and most humble servant , SAM . JOHNSON * . Written in the year 1747 . C. PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH ...
... easily regret an attempt which has procured me the honour of ap- pearing thus publicly , My Lord , Your Lordship's most obedient , and most humble servant , SAM . JOHNSON * . Written in the year 1747 . C. PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH ...
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