The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... Latin verses with classick elegance . If any exceptions can be made , they are very few : Haddon and Ascham , the pride of Eli- zabeth's reign , however they have succeeded in prose , no sooner attempt verse than they provoke derision ...
... Latin verses with classick elegance . If any exceptions can be made , they are very few : Haddon and Ascham , the pride of Eli- zabeth's reign , however they have succeeded in prose , no sooner attempt verse than they provoke derision ...
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... Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be un- derstood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have done nothing else ; but Milton found time to write the Masque of Comus ...
... Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be un- derstood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have done nothing else ; but Milton found time to write the Masque of Comus ...
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... Latin poem , which must have raised an high opi- nion of English elegance and literature . His purpose was now to have visited Sicily and Greece ; but , hearing of the differences between the king and parliament , he thought it proper ...
... Latin poem , which must have raised an high opi- nion of English elegance and literature . His purpose was now to have visited Sicily and Greece ; but , hearing of the differences between the king and parliament , he thought it proper ...
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... Latin , that were read in Aldersgate- street by youth between ten and fifteen or sixteen years of age . Those who tell or receive these stories should consider , that nobody can be taught faster than he can learn . The speed of the ...
... Latin , that were read in Aldersgate- street by youth between ten and fifteen or sixteen years of age . Those who tell or receive these stories should consider , that nobody can be taught faster than he can learn . The speed of the ...
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... judge by their effects . From this wonder - working academy , I do not know that there ever proceeded any man very eminent för knowledge : its only genuine product , I believe , is a small History of Poetry , written in Latin 98 MILTON .
... judge by their effects . From this wonder - working academy , I do not know that there ever proceeded any man very eminent för knowledge : its only genuine product , I believe , is a small History of Poetry , written in Latin 98 MILTON .
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