The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 6 |
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My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertisement, like those
which we find in the French Miscellanies, containing a few dates and a general
character: but I have been led beyond my intention, I hope, by the honest desire
of ...
My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertisement, like those
which we find in the French Miscellanies, containing a few dates and a general
character: but I have been led beyond my intention, I hope, by the honest desire
of ...
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... 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 history: he. has given I the character, not
the life, ...
... 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 history: he. has given I the character, not
the life, ...
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Of Cowley, we are told by Barnes*, who had means enough of information, that,
whatever he may talk of his own inflammability, and the varietjTof characters by
which his heart was divided, he in reality wasjn lov£ Jbuljmce, and then never
had ...
Of Cowley, we are told by Barnes*, who had means enough of information, that,
whatever he may talk of his own inflammability, and the varietjTof characters by
which his heart was divided, he in reality wasjn lov£ Jbuljmce, and then never
had ...
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The man that sits down to suppose himself charged with treason or peculation,
and heats his mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which
he was never within the possibility of committing, differs only by the_infrequency
of ...
The man that sits down to suppose himself charged with treason or peculation,
and heats his mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which
he was never within the possibility of committing, differs only by the_infrequency
of ...
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He then took upon himself the character of Physician, still, according to 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 ...
He then took upon himself the character of Physician, still, according to 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 ...
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 6 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
| Procedencia del original | University of Minnesota |
| Digitalizado | 29 Ene 2010 |
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