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Pàgina xx
... friend Savage was wasting considerable powers in temporary gratification , John- son was advancing slowly but surely into a higher class of society . The powers of his pen were supported by those of his conversation ; he lost no friend ...
... friend Savage was wasting considerable powers in temporary gratification , John- son was advancing slowly but surely into a higher class of society . The powers of his pen were supported by those of his conversation ; he lost no friend ...
Pàgina xxi
... friends as he had received attention from in Scotland.13 His pamphlet , entitled " Taxation no Tyranny , " which ... friendship of the wise and the worthy . Thus loved and venerated , Johnson might have been pronounced happy . But Heaven ...
... friends as he had received attention from in Scotland.13 His pamphlet , entitled " Taxation no Tyranny , " which ... friendship of the wise and the worthy . Thus loved and venerated , Johnson might have been pronounced happy . But Heaven ...
Pàgina xxii
... friends , rather than the spleen of enemies , have occasioned his character being exposed in all its shadows , as well as its lights . But those , when summed and counted , amount only to a few narrow - minded prejudices concerning ...
... friends , rather than the spleen of enemies , have occasioned his character being exposed in all its shadows , as well as its lights . But those , when summed and counted , amount only to a few narrow - minded prejudices concerning ...
Pàgina 5
... friends ) , he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable ... friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's COWLEY . 5.
... friends ) , he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable ... friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's COWLEY . 5.
Pàgina 39
... friends , who had reproved his suspended and dilatory life , which he seems to have imputed to an insatiable curiosity , and fantastic luxury of various knowledge . To this he writes a cool and plausible answer , in which he endeavours ...
... friends , who had reproved his suspended and dilatory life , which he seems to have imputed to an insatiable curiosity , and fantastic luxury of various knowledge . To this he writes a cool and plausible answer , in which he endeavours ...
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