The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 2
... observation which could have had no propriety had his poetical abilities been known before . He was after that pricked for sheriff of Surrey , and made governour of Farnham castle for the king ; but he soon resigned that charge , and ...
... observation which could have had no propriety had his poetical abilities been known before . He was after that pricked for sheriff of Surrey , and made governour of Farnham castle for the king ; but he soon resigned that charge , and ...
Pagina 10
... observation of a man of judgment naturally right , forsaking bad copies by degrees , and advancing towards a better practice , as he gains more confidence in himself . In his translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty ...
... observation of a man of judgment naturally right , forsaking bad copies by degrees , and advancing towards a better practice , as he gains more confidence in himself . In his translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty ...
Pagina 29
... observation , and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which Stephen Marshall , Edmund Calamy , Thomas Young , Matthew New- comen , William Spurstow . R. in some measure be compast , I refuse not to 29 MILTON.
... observation , and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which Stephen Marshall , Edmund Calamy , Thomas Young , Matthew New- comen , William Spurstow . R. in some measure be compast , I refuse not to 29 MILTON.
Pagina 33
... observed , that he became an enemy to the presbyterians , whom he had favoured before . He that changes his party by his humour , is not more virtuous than he that changes it by his interest : he loves himself rather than truth . His ...
... observed , that he became an enemy to the presbyterians , whom he had favoured before . He that changes his party by his humour , is not more virtuous than he that changes it by his interest : he loves himself rather than truth . His ...
Pagina 50
... observe how they are some- times suddenly advanced by accidental hints , and sometimes slowly improved by steady meditation . Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct , and , therefore , he natu ...
... observe how they are some- times suddenly advanced by accidental hints , and sometimes slowly improved by steady meditation . Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct , and , therefore , he natu ...
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