The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative ...
... natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative ...
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... Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such " 66 an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail on him to learn the rules without book . " He ...
... Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such " 66 an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail on him to learn the rules without book . " He ...
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... natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elabo- rate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of he- roism , and effusions of wit ; but it ...
... natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elabo- rate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of he- roism , and effusions of wit ; but it ...
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... nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the seventeenth century , appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphy- sical poets ; of ...
... nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the seventeenth century , appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphy- sical poets ; of ...
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... natural dignity , and re- duces it from strength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more ... nature and art are ransacked for illustrations , com- parisons , and allusions ; their learning instructs , and ...
... natural dignity , and re- duces it from strength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more ... nature and art are ransacked for illustrations , com- parisons , and allusions ; their learning instructs , and ...
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