The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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... common law with sufficient appearance of application ; yet did not lose his propensity to cards and dice ; but was very often plundered by gamesters . * In Hamilton's memoirs of count Grammont , sir John Denham is said to have been ...
... common law with sufficient appearance of application ; yet did not lose his propensity to cards and dice ; but was very often plundered by gamesters . * In Hamilton's memoirs of count Grammont , sir John Denham is said to have been ...
Pagina 2
... common artifice by which envy degrades excel- lence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of his Cato , and Pope ...
... common artifice by which envy degrades excel- lence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of his Cato , and Pope ...
Pagina 5
... common with almost all mankind , the ambition of being , upon proper occasions , a merry fellow , and , in common with most of them , to have been by nature , or by early habits , debarred from it . Nothing is less exhilarating than the ...
... common with almost all mankind , the ambition of being , upon proper occasions , a merry fellow , and , in common with most of them , to have been by nature , or by early habits , debarred from it . Nothing is less exhilarating than the ...
Pagina 13
... common literature , as his son addresses him in one of his most elaborate Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Caston , a Welsh family , by whom he had two sons , John , the poet , and Christopher , who studied the law ...
... common literature , as his son addresses him in one of his most elaborate Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Caston , a Welsh family , by whom he had two sons , John , the poet , and Christopher , who studied the law ...
Pagina 22
... common topicks ; but the last is natural and beautiful . From Florence he went to Sienna , and from Sienna to Rome , where he was again received with kindness by the learned and the great . Holstenius , the keeper of the vatican library ...
... common topicks ; but the last is natural and beautiful . From Florence he went to Sienna , and from Sienna to Rome , where he was again received with kindness by the learned and the great . Holstenius , the keeper of the vatican library ...
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