The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 39
... never be derived . No man forgets his original trade : the rights of nations , and of kings , sink into questions of grammar , if grammarians discuss them . Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of sight ...
... never be derived . No man forgets his original trade : the rights of nations , and of kings , sink into questions of grammar , if grammarians discuss them . Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of sight ...
Pagina 41
... never was pretended : he himself founded his right only in necessity ; but Milton , having now tasted the honey of publick employment , would not return to hunger and phylosophy , but , continuing to exercise his office , under a ...
... never was pretended : he himself founded his right only in necessity ; but Milton , having now tasted the honey of publick employment , would not return to hunger and phylosophy , but , continuing to exercise his office , under a ...
Pagina 60
... never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal ; and that whatever he attempted at other times was never to his satisfaction , though he courted his fancy 60 MILTON.
... never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal ; and that whatever he attempted at other times was never to his satisfaction , though he courted his fancy 60 MILTON.
Pagina 61
Samuel Johnson. never to his satisfaction , though he courted his fancy never so much ; so that , in all the years he was about this poem , he may be said to have spent half his time therein . " Upon this relation Toland remarks , that ...
Samuel Johnson. never to his satisfaction , though he courted his fancy never so much ; so that , in all the years he was about this poem , he may be said to have spent half his time therein . " Upon this relation Toland remarks , that ...
Pagina 64
... never taught to write ; nor would he have been obliged , as is universally confessed , to have employed any casual visitor in disburdening his memory , if his daughter could have performed the office . 99 66 The story of reducing his ...
... never taught to write ; nor would he have been obliged , as is universally confessed , to have employed any casual visitor in disburdening his memory , if his daughter could have performed the office . 99 66 The story of reducing his ...
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