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... merit , be transcribed ; but the following passage from Almeria's speech is the one on which the remarks above were chiefly made . How reverend is the face of this tall pile ; Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear ...
... merit , be transcribed ; but the following passage from Almeria's speech is the one on which the remarks above were chiefly made . How reverend is the face of this tall pile ; Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear ...
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... merit and worth I think with respect , had he not attacked Johnson so outrageously in his Life of Swift , and , at the same time , treated us his admirers as a set of pygmies . He who has provoked the lash of wit cannot complain that he ...
... merit and worth I think with respect , had he not attacked Johnson so outrageously in his Life of Swift , and , at the same time , treated us his admirers as a set of pygmies . He who has provoked the lash of wit cannot complain that he ...
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... merit is there in that ? You may as well praise a schoolmaster for whipping a boy who has construed ill . No , sir , there is no real criticism in it ; none showing the beauty of thought , as formed on the workings of the human heart ...
... merit is there in that ? You may as well praise a schoolmaster for whipping a boy who has construed ill . No , sir , there is no real criticism in it ; none showing the beauty of thought , as formed on the workings of the human heart ...
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... merit in telling how many plays have ghosts in them , and how this ghost is better than that . You must show how terrour is impressed on the human heart . — In the descrip- tion of night in Macbeth , the beetle and the bat detract from ...
... merit in telling how many plays have ghosts in them , and how this ghost is better than that . You must show how terrour is impressed on the human heart . — In the descrip- tion of night in Macbeth , the beetle and the bat detract from ...
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... merit . " There is nothing in all this boasted system . No , sir ; medicated baths can be no better than warm water : their only effect can be that of tepid moisture . " One of the company took the other side , maintaining that ...
... merit . " There is nothing in all this boasted system . No , sir ; medicated baths can be no better than warm water : their only effect can be that of tepid moisture . " One of the company took the other side , maintaining that ...
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acquaintance admiration Æneid affectionate afraid afterwards answered appeared asked Beggar's Opera believe BENNET LANGTON called character church compliments consider conversation court dear sir DEAR SIR,-I dined doctor of medicine Edinburgh edition eminent England English Erse favour Garrick gentleman give glad Goldsmith happy heard Hebrides honour hope humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson judge king lady Langton laugh learning letter Lichfield literary live London lord Bute lord Hailes lord Monboddo Lucy Porter manner ment mentioned merit mind nation never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford passage perhaps pleased pleasure poem publick racter reason remark Samuel Johnson Scotch Scotland seemed sir Joshua Reynolds speak Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told Tom Davies wish wonder write written wrote