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... thought it incapable of any . They will now be undeceived and encouraged . " This courtly device failed of its effect . Johnson , who thought that " all was false and hollow , " de- spised the honeyed words , and was even indignant that ...
... thought it incapable of any . They will now be undeceived and encouraged . " This courtly device failed of its effect . Johnson , who thought that " all was false and hollow , " de- spised the honeyed words , and was even indignant that ...
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... thought the mention of it could not properly find a place in a letter of the kind that this was . " - B . This surely is an unsatisfactory excuse ; for the sum , though now so inconsiderable , was one which , many years before , Johnson ...
... thought the mention of it could not properly find a place in a letter of the kind that this was . " - B . This surely is an unsatisfactory excuse ; for the sum , though now so inconsiderable , was one which , many years before , Johnson ...
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... thought had been a lord among wits : but , I find , he is only a wit among lords ! " ( 2 ) And when his Letters to his natural son were published , he observed , that " " they teach the morals of a whore , and the manners of a dancing ...
... thought had been a lord among wits : but , I find , he is only a wit among lords ! " ( 2 ) And when his Letters to his natural son were published , he observed , that " " they teach the morals of a whore , and the manners of a dancing ...
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... thought . The reason why the au- thors , which are yet read , of the sixteenth century , are so little understood , is , that they are read alone ; and no help is borrowed from those who lived with them , or before them . Some part of ...
... thought . The reason why the au- thors , which are yet read , of the sixteenth century , are so little understood , is , that they are read alone ; and no help is borrowed from those who lived with them , or before them . Some part of ...
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... thought it a very sonorous hexameter . did not tell him , it was not in the Virgilian style . much regretted that his first tutor was dead ; for whom he seemed to retain the greatest regard . He said , ' I once had been a whole morning ...
... thought it a very sonorous hexameter . did not tell him , it was not in the Virgilian style . much regretted that his first tutor was dead ; for whom he seemed to retain the greatest regard . He said , ' I once had been a whole morning ...
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