The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 30Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... never leaving the court , but when he was fent to that of France , on fome short commiffions and embaffies of compliment : as if the king defigned to fhew the French ( who would be thought the politeft nation ) that one of the finest ...
... never leaving the court , but when he was fent to that of France , on fome short commiffions and embaffies of compliment : as if the king defigned to fhew the French ( who would be thought the politeft nation ) that one of the finest ...
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... never to blame . He was naturally very fubject to paffion ; but the fhort guft was foon over , and ferved only to fet off the charms of his temper , when more compofed . That very paffion broke out with a force of wit , which made even ...
... never to blame . He was naturally very fubject to paffion ; but the fhort guft was foon over , and ferved only to fet off the charms of his temper , when more compofed . That very paffion broke out with a force of wit , which made even ...
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... never - ceating civi- lity ; or , laftly , by the two things which were his utter averfion , the infinuation of a flatterer , and the whisper of a tale - bearer . If therefore we fet the picce in its worst position , if its faults be ...
... never - ceating civi- lity ; or , laftly , by the two things which were his utter averfion , the infinuation of a flatterer , and the whisper of a tale - bearer . If therefore we fet the picce in its worst position , if its faults be ...
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... never feen a court : the politenefs and civility , with which this juftice was administered , would convince you he never had lived out of one . He was fo ftrict an obferver of his word , that no confideration whatever could make him ...
... never feen a court : the politenefs and civility , with which this juftice was administered , would convince you he never had lived out of one . He was fo ftrict an obferver of his word , that no confideration whatever could make him ...
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... never before printed , and might have lain as quietly , and perhaps more fafely , in a corner of my own study . The reader will , I hope , make allowance for their having been written at very diftant times , and on very different ...
... never before printed , and might have lain as quietly , and perhaps more fafely , in a corner of my own study . The reader will , I hope , make allowance for their having been written at very diftant times , and on very different ...
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