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A warrant was ifsued , and messengers were employed to apprehend the author ,
who , it seems , was known . To elude his pursuers , he retired with his wife to
Lambeth - marsh , and there lay concealed in an obscure lodging till the scent ...
A warrant was ifsued , and messengers were employed to apprehend the author ,
who , it seems , was known . To elude his pursuers , he retired with his wife to
Lambeth - marsh , and there lay concealed in an obscure lodging till the scent ...
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All that Johnson asked was a temporary supply ; and that was granted . There
was certainly no ostentatious liberality ; but a kind action seems to have been
done , without delay , and without grudging . In 1756 , he published an
abridgment of ...
All that Johnson asked was a temporary supply ; and that was granted . There
was certainly no ostentatious liberality ; but a kind action seems to have been
done , without delay , and without grudging . In 1756 , he published an
abridgment of ...
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This , at leaft , seems to have been his own opinion of the progress of these
diseases , as appears from his history of the Mad Astronomer in Rasselas , the
description of whose mind he seems to have intended as a representation of his
own .
This , at leaft , seems to have been his own opinion of the progress of these
diseases , as appears from his history of the Mad Astronomer in Rasselas , the
description of whose mind he seems to have intended as a representation of his
own .
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He seems to have been particularly studious of the glitter of an antithesis
between the epithet and the substantive . This strikes while it is new ; but to the
more experienced reader , though it may seem sometimes forcible , yet it will
often prove ...
He seems to have been particularly studious of the glitter of an antithesis
between the epithet and the substantive . This strikes while it is new ; but to the
more experienced reader , though it may seem sometimes forcible , yet it will
often prove ...
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V1 11101 Lofty ; he seems to use Dryden ' s phrafe , to be o ' er inform ' d with
meaning , and his words do not appear to himself adequate to his conception .
He moves in state , and his periods are always harmonious . His Oriental Tales
are ...
V1 11101 Lofty ; he seems to use Dryden ' s phrafe , to be o ' er inform ' d with
meaning , and his words do not appear to himself adequate to his conception .
He moves in state , and his periods are always harmonious . His Oriental Tales
are ...
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