The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 10
... I attest , and call To witness for myself , that in their fall No foes , no death , nor danger , I declin'd , Did , and deserv'd no less , my fate to find . From this kind of concatenated metre he after- wards refrained 10 DENHAM.
... I attest , and call To witness for myself , that in their fall No foes , no death , nor danger , I declin'd , Did , and deserv'd no less , my fate to find . From this kind of concatenated metre he after- wards refrained 10 DENHAM.
Pagina 11
Samuel Johnson. From this kind of concatenated metre he after- wards refrained , and taught his followers the art of concluding their sense in couplets ; which has , per- haps , been with rather too much constancy pursued . This passage ...
Samuel Johnson. From this kind of concatenated metre he after- wards refrained , and taught his followers the art of concluding their sense in couplets ; which has , per- haps , been with rather too much constancy pursued . This passage ...
Pagina 52
... kind of respect , perhaps unconsciously , paid to this great man by his biogra- phers : every house in which he resided is historically mentioned , as if it were an injury to neglect nam- ing any place that he honoured by his presence ...
... kind of respect , perhaps unconsciously , paid to this great man by his biogra- phers : every house in which he resided is historically mentioned , as if it were an injury to neglect nam- ing any place that he honoured by his presence ...
Pagina 54
... kind of crime , escaped with incapacitation ; and , as exclusion from publick trust is a punishment which the power of government can commonly inflict , without the help of a particu- lar law , it required no great interest to exempt It ...
... kind of crime , escaped with incapacitation ; and , as exclusion from publick trust is a punishment which the power of government can commonly inflict , without the help of a particu- lar law , it required no great interest to exempt It ...
Pagina 69
... kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work , and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current , through fear and silence . I ...
... kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work , and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current , through fear and silence . I ...
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