The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... allow no settled indulgence of idleness upon principle , and always repelled every attempt to urge ex- cuses for it . A friend one day suggested , that it was not wholesome to study soon after dinner . JOHNSON . ' Ah , sir , don't give ...
... allow no settled indulgence of idleness upon principle , and always repelled every attempt to urge ex- cuses for it . A friend one day suggested , that it was not wholesome to study soon after dinner . JOHNSON . ' Ah , sir , don't give ...
Side 21
... allowed the extraordinary talents of Mr. Burke , so Mr. Burke was fully sensible of the won- derful powers of Johnson . Mr. Langton recollects having passed an evening with both of them , when Mr. Burke repeatedly entered upon topicks ...
... allowed the extraordinary talents of Mr. Burke , so Mr. Burke was fully sensible of the won- derful powers of Johnson . Mr. Langton recollects having passed an evening with both of them , when Mr. Burke repeatedly entered upon topicks ...
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... allowed the full merit of novelty , and to have discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemisphere . It is remarked by Johnson , in considering the works of a poeth , that " amendments are seldom made without some ...
... allowed the full merit of novelty , and to have discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemisphere . It is remarked by Johnson , in considering the works of a poeth , that " amendments are seldom made without some ...
Side 33
... allows that " Johnson has spoken in the highest terms of the abilities of that great poet , and has bestowed on his principal poetical compositions the most honourable en- comiums1 . " 1 See an Essay on the Life , Character , and ...
... allows that " Johnson has spoken in the highest terms of the abilities of that great poet , and has bestowed on his principal poetical compositions the most honourable en- comiums1 . " 1 See an Essay on the Life , Character , and ...
Side 34
... allow , that he never spared any asperity of reproach or brutality of insolence . " I have , indeed , often wondered how Milton , " an acri- monious and surly republican " , " - a man " who in his do- mestick relations was so severe and ...
... allow , that he never spared any asperity of reproach or brutality of insolence . " I have , indeed , often wondered how Milton , " an acri- monious and surly republican " , " - a man " who in his do- mestick relations was so severe and ...
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