The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 135
... better known by the title of lord Wilmot , so often men- tioned in Clarendon's History , was born April 10 , 1647 , at Ditchley , in Oxfordshire . After a gram- matical education at the school of Burford , he en- tered a nobleman into ...
... better known by the title of lord Wilmot , so often men- tioned in Clarendon's History , was born April 10 , 1647 , at Ditchley , in Oxfordshire . After a gram- matical education at the school of Burford , he en- tered a nobleman into ...
Pagina 139
... better preserved than in this . The versification is , indeed , sometimes careless , but it is sometimes vig- orous and weighty . The strongest effort of his muse is his poem upon Nothing . He is not the first who has chosen this barren ...
... better preserved than in this . The versification is , indeed , sometimes careless , but it is sometimes vig- orous and weighty . The strongest effort of his muse is his poem upon Nothing . He is not the first who has chosen this barren ...
Pagina 145
... better evidence of a fact cannot easily be found , than is here offered ; and it must be by preserving such relations that we may , at last , judge how much they are to be re- garded . If we stay to examine this account , we shall VOL ...
... better evidence of a fact cannot easily be found , than is here offered ; and it must be by preserving such relations that we may , at last , judge how much they are to be re- garded . If we stay to examine this account , we shall VOL ...
Pagina 152
... better performance of translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . He that can abstract his mind from the elegance of the poetry , and confine it to the sense of the pre- cepts , will find no other direction than ...
... better performance of translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . He that can abstract his mind from the elegance of the poetry , and confine it to the sense of the pre- cepts , will find no other direction than ...
Pagina 160
... better hope , that Pope , who lived near enough to be well informed , relates in Spence's Memorials , that he died of a fever , caught by vio- lent pursuit of a thief that had robbed one of his friends . But that indigence , and its ...
... better hope , that Pope , who lived near enough to be well informed , relates in Spence's Memorials , that he died of a fever , caught by vio- lent pursuit of a thief that had robbed one of his friends . But that indigence , and its ...
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