The Works of Samuel Johnson,4: With Murphy's EssayGeorge Cowie and Company, 1825 |
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17. oldal
... learning . He seems to have had no ambition above the imitation of Waller , of whom he has copied the faults , and very little more . He is for ever amusing himself with the puerilities of mythology ; his king is Jupiter , who , if the ...
... learning . He seems to have had no ambition above the imitation of Waller , of whom he has copied the faults , and very little more . He is for ever amusing himself with the puerilities of mythology ; his king is Jupiter , who , if the ...
32. oldal
... learning , and whose misfortunes claim a degree of compassion , not always due to the unhappy , as they were often the consequences of the crimes of others , rather than his own . In the year 1697 , Anne countess of Macclesfield ...
... learning , and whose misfortunes claim a degree of compassion , not always due to the unhappy , as they were often the consequences of the crimes of others , rather than his own . In the year 1697 , Anne countess of Macclesfield ...
120. oldal
... learning scarcely to be found in any other performances , but which perhaps as often obscures as embellishes them . His judgment was eminently exact both with regard to writings and to men . The knowledge of life was indeed his chief ...
... learning scarcely to be found in any other performances , but which perhaps as often obscures as embellishes them . His judgment was eminently exact both with regard to writings and to men . The knowledge of life was indeed his chief ...
130. oldal
... learning have been justly distributed by the deci- sion of posterity . " The Battle of the Books " is so like the " Combat des Livres , " which the same question concerning the ancients and moderns had produced in France , that the ...
... learning have been justly distributed by the deci- sion of posterity . " The Battle of the Books " is so like the " Combat des Livres , " which the same question concerning the ancients and moderns had produced in France , that the ...
131. oldal
... learning , be able to find another subject so calculated , in all points , whereon to display their abilities ? What won derful productions of wit should we be deprived of from those , whose genius , by continual practice , hath been ...
... learning , be able to find another subject so calculated , in all points , whereon to display their abilities ? What won derful productions of wit should we be deprived of from those , whose genius , by continual practice , hath been ...
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