The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... desire of giving use- ful pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine ...
... desire of giving use- ful pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine ...
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... desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its ...
... desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its ...
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... desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of he- roism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reason- able to appear the champion as the poet of an airy nothing , " and to quarrel às to write for what Cowley might have ...
... desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of he- roism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reason- able to appear the champion as the poet of an airy nothing , " and to quarrel às to write for what Cowley might have ...
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... desire had been for some days past , and did still very vehemently continue , to retire himself to some of the American plantations , and to forsake this world for ever . " From the obloquy which the appearance of sub- mission to the ...
... desire had been for some days past , and did still very vehemently continue , to retire himself to some of the American plantations , and to forsake this world for ever . " From the obloquy which the appearance of sub- mission to the ...
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... had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke . Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him COWLEY . Moral 15.
... had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke . Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him COWLEY . Moral 15.
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