The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 11
... reader is shifted off with what he can get : O how transform'd ! How much unlike that Hector , who return'd Clad in Achilles ' spoils ! And again : From thence a thousand lesser poets sprung Like petty princes from the fall of Rome ...
... reader is shifted off with what he can get : O how transform'd ! How much unlike that Hector , who return'd Clad in Achilles ' spoils ! And again : From thence a thousand lesser poets sprung Like petty princes from the fall of Rome ...
Pagina 28
... readers has ever heard ' . That in his school , as in every thing else which he undertook , he laboured with great diligence , there is no reason for doubting . One part of his method deserves general imitation . He was careful to ...
... readers has ever heard ' . That in his school , as in every thing else which he undertook , he laboured with great diligence , there is no reason for doubting . One part of his method deserves general imitation . He was careful to ...
Pagina 58
... reader , that this relation of Voltaire's was perfectly true , as far as relates to the existence of the play which he speaks of , namely , the Adamo of Andreini ; but it is still a question whether Milton ever saw it . J. B. yet ...
... reader , that this relation of Voltaire's was perfectly true , as far as relates to the existence of the play which he speaks of , namely , the Adamo of Andreini ; but it is still a question whether Milton ever saw it . J. B. yet ...
Pagina 69
... readers , it may be sufficient to remark , that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664 , that is , forty - one years , with only two editions of the works of Shakes- peare , which , probably , did not together make one thousand ...
... readers , it may be sufficient to remark , that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664 , that is , forty - one years , with only two editions of the works of Shakes- peare , which , probably , did not together make one thousand ...
Pagina 70
... readers , that they might as well reap the benefit of what they read to him , as oblige him by the benefit of their reading ; and others of younger years were sent by their parents to the same end ; yet excusing only the eldest daughter ...
... readers , that they might as well reap the benefit of what they read to him , as oblige him by the benefit of their reading ; and others of younger years were sent by their parents to the same end ; yet excusing only the eldest daughter ...
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