The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 19
... lived five years ; in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have ...
... lived five years ; in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have ...
Pagina 21
... lived at Horton , he used sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Harefield , the house of the countess dowager of Derby , where the Arcades made part of a dramatick entertainment . He began now to grow weary ...
... lived at Horton , he used sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Harefield , the house of the countess dowager of Derby , where the Arcades made part of a dramatick entertainment . He began now to grow weary ...
Pagina 58
... lived longer in this place than in any other . He was now busied by Paradise Lost . Whence he drew the original design has been variously conjectured , by men who cannot bear to think them- selves ignorant of that which , at last ...
... lived longer in this place than in any other . He was now busied by Paradise Lost . Whence he drew the original design has been variously conjectured , by men who cannot bear to think them- selves ignorant of that which , at last ...
Pagina 79
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distri- bution of his hours , there was no hour of prayer , either solitary or with his household ...
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distri- bution of his hours , there was no hour of prayer , either solitary or with his household ...
Pagina 81
... lived seventy - six years , to August , 1727. This is the daughter of whom pub- lick mention has been made . She could repeat the first lines of Homer , the Metamorphoses , and some of Euripides , by having often read them . Yet here ...
... lived seventy - six years , to August , 1727. This is the daughter of whom pub- lick mention has been made . She could repeat the first lines of Homer , the Metamorphoses , and some of Euripides , by having often read them . Yet here ...
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