Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on Their Works by Samuel Johnson, Volum 1Derby & Jackson, 1861 - 635 pàgines |
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Pàgina xxxv
... mean spirit inte sycophancy , but made him rude even to ferocity . Unhappily the insolence which , while it was defensive was pardonable , and in some sense respectable , accompanied him into societies where he was treated with courtesy ...
... mean spirit inte sycophancy , but made him rude even to ferocity . Unhappily the insolence which , while it was defensive was pardonable , and in some sense respectable , accompanied him into societies where he was treated with courtesy ...
Pàgina xxxviii
... and requited it with a few guineas , bestowed doubtless in a very graceful manner , but was by no means desirous to see all his carpets blackened with the London mud , and his soups and wines thrown to right xxxviii LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON .
... and requited it with a few guineas , bestowed doubtless in a very graceful manner , but was by no means desirous to see all his carpets blackened with the London mud , and his soups and wines thrown to right xxxviii LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON .
Pàgina xliii
... means . The fifteen hundred guineas which the booksellers bad agreed to pay him had been advanced and spent before the last sheets issued from the press . It is painful to relate that , twice in the course of the year which followed the ...
... means . The fifteen hundred guineas which the booksellers bad agreed to pay him had been advanced and spent before the last sheets issued from the press . It is painful to relate that , twice in the course of the year which followed the ...
Pàgina lv
... mean something , a praise to which much of what is called criticism in our time has no pretensions . Savage's Life Johnson reprinted nearly as it had appeared in 17.14 . Whoever , after reading that life , will turn to the other lives ...
... mean something , a praise to which much of what is called criticism in our time has no pretensions . Savage's Life Johnson reprinted nearly as it had appeared in 17.14 . Whoever , after reading that life , will turn to the other lives ...
Pàgina lvii
... means of defraying ; for he had laid up about two thousand pounds , the fruit of labours which had made the fortune of several publishers . But he was unwilling to break in upon this hoard , and he seems to have wished even to keep its ...
... means of defraying ; for he had laid up about two thousand pounds , the fruit of labours which had made the fortune of several publishers . But he was unwilling to break in upon this hoard , and he seems to have wished even to keep its ...
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