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... allow no settled indulgence of idle- ness upon principle , and always repelled every at- tempt to urge excuses for it . A friend one day sug- gested , that it was not wholesome to study soon after dinner . JOHNSON . Ah , Sir , don't ...
... allow no settled indulgence of idle- ness upon principle , and always repelled every at- tempt to urge excuses for it . A friend one day sug- gested , that it was not wholesome to study soon after dinner . JOHNSON . Ah , Sir , don't ...
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... allowed the extraordinary talents of Mr. Burke , so Mr. Burke was fully sensi- ble of the wonderful powers of Johnson . Mr. Lang- ton recollects having passed an evening with both of them , when Mr. Burke repeatedly entered upon to ...
... allowed the extraordinary talents of Mr. Burke , so Mr. Burke was fully sensi- ble of the wonderful powers of Johnson . Mr. Lang- ton recollects having passed an evening with both of them , when Mr. Burke repeatedly entered upon to ...
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... allowed the full merit of novelty , and to have discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemi- sphere . It is remarked by Johnson , in considering the works of a poet , ' that " amendments are seldom made without ...
... allowed the full merit of novelty , and to have discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemi- sphere . It is remarked by Johnson , in considering the works of a poet , ' that " amendments are seldom made without ...
Pàgina 41
... allows , that " Johnson has spoken in the highest terms of the abilities of that great poet , and has bestowed on his principal poetical compositions , the most honourable encomiums . " 4 4 See " An Essay on the Life , Character , and ...
... allows , that " Johnson has spoken in the highest terms of the abilities of that great poet , and has bestowed on his principal poetical compositions , the most honourable encomiums . " 4 4 See " An Essay on the Life , Character , and ...
Pàgina 42
... allow , that he never spared any asperity of reproach , or brutality of inso- lence . " Į have , indeed , often wondered how Milton , " an acrimonious and surly Republican , " * " a man who in his domestick relations was so severe and ...
... allow , that he never spared any asperity of reproach , or brutality of inso- lence . " Į have , indeed , often wondered how Milton , " an acrimonious and surly Republican , " * " a man who in his domestick relations was so severe and ...
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