The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
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... Sprat , to relate , “ That he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " SPRAT This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder ...
... Sprat , to relate , “ That he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " SPRAT This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder ...
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Samuel Johnson. 66 Some years afterwards , " business , " says Sprat , passed of course into other hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that , " under pretence of privacy and ...
Samuel Johnson. 66 Some years afterwards , " business , " says Sprat , passed of course into other hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent back into England , that , " under pretence of privacy and ...
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... Sprat , with intention " to dissemble the main design of his coming over ; " and , as Mr. Wood relates , " complying with the men then in power ( which was much taken notice of by the royal party ) , he obtained an order to be created ...
... Sprat , with intention " to dissemble the main design of his coming over ; " and , as Mr. Wood relates , " complying with the men then in power ( which was much taken notice of by the royal party ) , he obtained an order to be created ...
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... Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " that , when they told Cowley.how little favour had been shewn him , he received the news of his ill success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great ...
... Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " that , when they told Cowley.how little favour had been shewn him , he received the news of his ill success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great ...
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