Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1893 - 718 páginas |
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... once harbours in the breast , Those holy beings , whose unseen direction Guides through the maze of life the steps of man , Fly the detested mansions of impiety , And quit their charge to horror and to ruin . " A small part only of this ...
... once harbours in the breast , Those holy beings , whose unseen direction Guides through the maze of life the steps of man , Fly the detested mansions of impiety , And quit their charge to horror and to ruin . " A small part only of this ...
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... once praised for her learning , observed : " A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table , than when his wife talks Greek . My old friend Mrs. Carter could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus ...
... once praised for her learning , observed : " A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table , than when his wife talks Greek . My old friend Mrs. Carter could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus ...
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... once its Juvenal and Horace as poetical monitors . The Reverend Dr. Douglas , now Bishop of Salisbury , 1 to whom I am indebted for some obliging communications , was then a student at Oxford , and remembers well the effect which ...
... once its Juvenal and Horace as poetical monitors . The Reverend Dr. Douglas , now Bishop of Salisbury , 1 to whom I am indebted for some obliging communications , was then a student at Oxford , and remembers well the effect which ...
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... once told me , that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple , and upon Chambers's Proposal " for his Dictionary . He cer- " " tainly was mistaken ; or if he imagined at first that he was imitating Temple , he was very ...
... once told me , that he had formed his style upon that of Sir William Temple , and upon Chambers's Proposal " for his Dictionary . He cer- " " tainly was mistaken ; or if he imagined at first that he was imitating Temple , he was very ...
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... once addressed your Lordship in public , I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess . I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected , be it ever so ...
... once addressed your Lordship in public , I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess . I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected , be it ever so ...
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