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Pàgina viii
... Lord Bute assured him , ' for anything you are to do , but for what you have done . ' Thus for the remainder of his days the sage was independent of the precarious wages of literature , while he reigned in undisputed supremacy over the ...
... Lord Bute assured him , ' for anything you are to do , but for what you have done . ' Thus for the remainder of his days the sage was independent of the precarious wages of literature , while he reigned in undisputed supremacy over the ...
Pàgina viii
... Lord Bute assured him , ' for anything you are to do , but for what you have done . ' Thus for the remainder of his days the sage was independent of the precarious wages of literature , while he reigned in undisputed supremacy over the ...
... Lord Bute assured him , ' for anything you are to do , but for what you have done . ' Thus for the remainder of his days the sage was independent of the precarious wages of literature , while he reigned in undisputed supremacy over the ...
Pàgina xxvi
... Lord Macaulay , who learned his prose in Johnson's school , and who , to do him justice , never showed a ' vicious partiality ' for a short word when a long one better served his turn . Of this tangle of error and nonsense who shall ...
... Lord Macaulay , who learned his prose in Johnson's school , and who , to do him justice , never showed a ' vicious partiality ' for a short word when a long one better served his turn . Of this tangle of error and nonsense who shall ...
Pàgina xxix
... Lord Macaulay's foolish classification , is but ' half naturalised . ' That will serve for a single instance of the unerring accuracy with which Johnson is accustomed to hit the mark . The second passage referred to as worthy of the ...
... Lord Macaulay's foolish classification , is but ' half naturalised . ' That will serve for a single instance of the unerring accuracy with which Johnson is accustomed to hit the mark . The second passage referred to as worthy of the ...
Pàgina 4
... Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was surrendered to the parlia- ment , he followed the Queen to Paris , where he became secretary to the Lord Jermin , afterwards Earl ...
... Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was surrendered to the parlia- ment , he followed the Queen to Paris , where he became secretary to the Lord Jermin , afterwards Earl ...
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