The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 58
... present form about the time ( 1655 ) when he finished his dispute with the defenders of the king . He , long before , had promised to adorn his native country by some great performance , while he had It is scarcely necessary to inform ...
... present form about the time ( 1655 ) when he finished his dispute with the defenders of the king . He , long before , had promised to adorn his native country by some great performance , while he had It is scarcely necessary to inform ...
Pagina 68
... present . To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders , nor often gen- tlemen , thought themselves disgraced by ignorance . The women had not then aspired to literature , nor was every house supplied with a closet of ...
... present . To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders , nor often gen- tlemen , thought themselves disgraced by ignorance . The women had not then aspired to literature , nor was every house supplied with a closet of ...
Pagina 82
... present , and promised some establishment , but died soon after . Queen Caroline sent her fifty guineas . She had seven sons and three daughters ; but none of them had any children , except her son Caleb and her daughter Elizabeth ...
... present , and promised some establishment , but died soon after . Queen Caroline sent her fifty guineas . She had seven sons and three daughters ; but none of them had any children , except her son Caleb and her daughter Elizabeth ...
Pagina 103
... present misery , it be possible to conceive it ; but the senti- ments and worship proper to a fallen and offending being , we have all to learn , as we have all to practise . The poet , whatever be done , is always great . Our ...
... present misery , it be possible to conceive it ; but the senti- ments and worship proper to a fallen and offending being , we have all to learn , as we have all to practise . The poet , whatever be done , is always great . Our ...
Pagina 128
... present , whoever would please must make provision . The skilful writer " irritat , mulcet , " makes a due distribution of the still and animated parts . It is for want of this artful intertexture , and those necessary changes , that ...
... present , whoever would please must make provision . The skilful writer " irritat , mulcet , " makes a due distribution of the still and animated parts . It is for want of this artful intertexture , and those necessary changes , that ...
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