The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His WorksJ. & A. Arch, 1795 - 307 páginas |
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... common thought , " that the mufe had come to him in his fleep , and whispered that it did not become him to write on fuch fubjects as politics ; he fhould confine himself to humbler themes ; " but the verfification was truly Virgilian ...
... common thought , " that the mufe had come to him in his fleep , and whispered that it did not become him to write on fuch fubjects as politics ; he fhould confine himself to humbler themes ; " but the verfification was truly Virgilian ...
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... common - place book to the extent of fix folio volumes , but according to Sir John Hawkins , the blank leaves far exceeded the written ones . way . In 1729 , while at Litchfield , during the college vacation , the " morbid melancho- ly ...
... common - place book to the extent of fix folio volumes , but according to Sir John Hawkins , the blank leaves far exceeded the written ones . way . In 1729 , while at Litchfield , during the college vacation , the " morbid melancho- ly ...
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... fuch a fubject , a proof of his fa- nity . It is a common effect of melan- choly to make those who are afflicted with it imagine that they are actually suffering 1 thofe evils which happen to be moft strongly prefented [ 24 ]
... fuch a fubject , a proof of his fa- nity . It is a common effect of melan- choly to make those who are afflicted with it imagine that they are actually suffering 1 thofe evils which happen to be moft strongly prefented [ 24 ]
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... Common Law ; but his debts in college increafing , and his fcanty remittances from Litchfield , which had all along been made with great difficulty , being difcontinued , his father having fallen into a state of infolvency , he was ...
... Common Law ; but his debts in college increafing , and his fcanty remittances from Litchfield , which had all along been made with great difficulty , being difcontinued , his father having fallen into a state of infolvency , he was ...
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... common merit , and thought it " credit- able to be concerned with it . " Dodfley gave him 10l . for the copy . It is remark- able , that it came out on the fame morn- ing with Pope's fatire , intituled , 1738 , " One of its warmeft ...
... common merit , and thought it " credit- able to be concerned with it . " Dodfley gave him 10l . for the copy . It is remark- able , that it came out on the fame morn- ing with Pope's fatire , intituled , 1738 , " One of its warmeft ...
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