The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His WorksJ. & A. Arch, 1795 - 307 páginas |
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... merit and value , the voluminous collections of the wife and witty fayings of the learned and ingenious men of other nations . With fome venial exceptions on the score of egotism and in- difcriminate admiration , his work exhibits the ...
... merit and value , the voluminous collections of the wife and witty fayings of the learned and ingenious men of other nations . With fome venial exceptions on the score of egotism and in- difcriminate admiration , his work exhibits the ...
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... merits of his fon , and told the company he was a good fcholar and a poet , and wrote Latin verses . His figure and manner seemed ftrange to them ; but he behaved modeftly , and fat filent , till , upon fomething which occurred in the ...
... merits of his fon , and told the company he was a good fcholar and a poet , and wrote Latin verses . His figure and manner seemed ftrange to them ; but he behaved modeftly , and fat filent , till , upon fomething which occurred in the ...
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... merit , and thought it " credit- able to be concerned with it . " Dodfley gave him 10l . for the copy . It is remark- able , that it came out on the fame morn- ing with Pope's fatire , intituled , 1738 , " One of its warmeft patrons was ...
... merit , and thought it " credit- able to be concerned with it . " Dodfley gave him 10l . for the copy . It is remark- able , that it came out on the fame morn- ing with Pope's fatire , intituled , 1738 , " One of its warmeft patrons was ...
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... merit of this work , which was all the knowledge he had of him , endeavoured to ferve him without his own application ; and wrote to my Lord Gower , but he did not fucceed ; Mr. Johnson published afterwards another poem in Latin , with ...
... merit of this work , which was all the knowledge he had of him , endeavoured to ferve him without his own application ; and wrote to my Lord Gower , but he did not fucceed ; Mr. Johnson published afterwards another poem in Latin , with ...
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... fero- city ; but merit cannot always take the fpurns of the unworthy with patience and a forbearing fpirit . 1 66 He wrote in the Gentleman's Maga- zine " for E ij [ 67 ] first volume of the "Catalogue," in which ...
... fero- city ; but merit cannot always take the fpurns of the unworthy with patience and a forbearing fpirit . 1 66 He wrote in the Gentleman's Maga- zine " for E ij [ 67 ] first volume of the "Catalogue," in which ...
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