Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His LifeT. and J. Allman, 1826 - 237 oldal |
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... being ill written , would be ridiculous ; it might indeed serve as a just reason for my having written it at all ; because , though others may print the same aphorisms and stories , I cannot here vi be sure that they have done so . As.
... being ill written , would be ridiculous ; it might indeed serve as a just reason for my having written it at all ; because , though others may print the same aphorisms and stories , I cannot here vi be sure that they have done so . As.
1. oldal
... reason be led to complain that so much has been said about himself ; for numberless informers but distract or cloud information , as glasses which multiply will for the most part be found also to obscure . Of a life , too , which for ...
... reason be led to complain that so much has been said about himself ; for numberless informers but distract or cloud information , as glasses which multiply will for the most part be found also to obscure . Of a life , too , which for ...
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... reason for forbearance , and say , that all the readers would , on this singular occasion , be the writers of his life : like the first representation of the Masque of Comus , which by changing their characters from spectators to ...
... reason for forbearance , and say , that all the readers would , on this singular occasion , be the writers of his life : like the first representation of the Masque of Comus , which by changing their characters from spectators to ...
18. oldal
... reason convinced , but the ef- fect will always be the same . Poor Dr. Sum- ner died , however , before the next vacation . " Mr. Johnson was of opinion , too , that young people should have positive , not general rules given for 18 ...
... reason convinced , but the ef- fect will always be the same . Poor Dr. Sum- ner died , however , before the next vacation . " Mr. Johnson was of opinion , too , that young people should have positive , not general rules given for 18 ...
44. oldal
... excellence nothing as good : " All which is strictly true ( said he ) ; but that is no reason for supposing Congreve is to stand in competition with Shak- speare : these fellows know not how to blame , 44 ANECDOTES OF.
... excellence nothing as good : " All which is strictly true ( said he ) ; but that is no reason for supposing Congreve is to stand in competition with Shak- speare : these fellows know not how to blame , 44 ANECDOTES OF.
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