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... attention to details is his greatest , if not his only , fault , as a biographer . In the whole Life of Savage there is not one date . Several details and corrections of errors , with which he was furnished for his Lives of the Poets ...
... attention to details is his greatest , if not his only , fault , as a biographer . In the whole Life of Savage there is not one date . Several details and corrections of errors , with which he was furnished for his Lives of the Poets ...
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... attention of a nobleman of such a respectable character ; but after pausing some time , declined to comply with the request , saying , with a smile , " No , Sir ; I have hurt the dog too much already ; " or words to that purpose ...
... attention of a nobleman of such a respectable character ; but after pausing some time , declined to comply with the request , saying , with a smile , " No , Sir ; I have hurt the dog too much already ; " or words to that purpose ...
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... attention to external elegance of manners . But it must , at the same time , be allowed , that they contain many good pre- cepts of conduct , and much genuine information upon life and manners , very happily expressed ; and that there ...
... attention to external elegance of manners . But it must , at the same time , be allowed , that they contain many good pre- cepts of conduct , and much genuine information upon life and manners , very happily expressed ; and that there ...
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... attention which that learned and elegant writer bestowed on those compositions which he intended for the public eye , is so happily ex- pressed in an easy style , that I should injure it by any alteration . When Johnson came to Oxford ...
... attention which that learned and elegant writer bestowed on those compositions which he intended for the public eye , is so happily ex- pressed in an easy style , that I should injure it by any alteration . When Johnson came to Oxford ...
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... attention ; and I have too much pleasure in pleasing men like you , not to fee very sensibly the distinction which you have bestowed upon me . " Few consequences of my endeavours to please or to D 3 ETAT . 46 . 37 THE DICTIONARY .
... attention ; and I have too much pleasure in pleasing men like you , not to fee very sensibly the distinction which you have bestowed upon me . " Few consequences of my endeavours to please or to D 3 ETAT . 46 . 37 THE DICTIONARY .
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