The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: Including A Journal of a Tour to the HebridesHarper & Brothers, 1863 |
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... allow no value to beauty in architecture or in tatuary ? Why should we allow it then in writing ? Why do you take the trouble to give us so many fine allusions , and bright images , and elegant phrases ? You might convey all your ...
... allow no value to beauty in architecture or in tatuary ? Why should we allow it then in writing ? Why do you take the trouble to give us so many fine allusions , and bright images , and elegant phrases ? You might convey all your ...
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... allow very great merit to his composition . Mr. Mur- phy said , he remembered when there were several people alive in London , who en- joyed a considerable reputation merely from having written a paper in " The Specta- tor . " He ...
... allow very great merit to his composition . Mr. Mur- phy said , he remembered when there were several people alive in London , who en- joyed a considerable reputation merely from having written a paper in " The Specta- tor . " He ...
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... allow him to be so in publick life . People may be honest , though they are doing wrong : that is , between their Maker and them . But we , who are suffering by their pernicious con- duct , are to destroy them . We are sure that [ Burke ] ...
... allow him to be so in publick life . People may be honest , though they are doing wrong : that is , between their Maker and them . But we , who are suffering by their pernicious con- duct , are to destroy them . We are sure that [ Burke ] ...
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