The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Том 2A. V. Blake, 1843 |
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... thing good , and no scantiness appearing . Every man should form such a plan of living as he can execute completely . Let him not draw an outline wider than he can fill up . I have seen many skeletons of show and magnificence which ...
... thing good , and no scantiness appearing . Every man should form such a plan of living as he can execute completely . Let him not draw an outline wider than he can fill up . I have seen many skeletons of show and magnificence which ...
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... thing intellectual , every thing abstract - politicks , morals , and religion , must be darkly guessed . Dr. Johnson was of the same opinion . He , upon another occasion , when a friend men- tioned to him several extraordinary facts ...
... thing intellectual , every thing abstract - politicks , morals , and religion , must be darkly guessed . Dr. Johnson was of the same opinion . He , upon another occasion , when a friend men- tioned to him several extraordinary facts ...
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... thing luminous . " will be always very contrary to my inten- tion . That I staid away was merely acci- dental . I have seldom dined from home ; and I did not think my opinion necessary to your information in any proprieties of be ...
... thing luminous . " will be always very contrary to my inten- tion . That I staid away was merely acci- dental . I have seldom dined from home ; and I did not think my opinion necessary to your information in any proprieties of be ...
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... thing in a poetical light . His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes , that the sense can hardly peep through . Shiels , who compiled Cibber's Lives of the Poets 3 , ' was one day sitting with me . I took down Thomson , and read ...
... thing in a poetical light . His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes , that the sense can hardly peep through . Shiels , who compiled Cibber's Lives of the Poets 3 , ' was one day sitting with me . I took down Thomson , and read ...
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... thing happened to Mrs. Monta- employed in fixing the attention ; so there gu , of which I beg you to inform her , for is but one half to be employed on what we she went likewise by my opinion . The de- read . " He told us , he read ...
... thing happened to Mrs. Monta- employed in fixing the attention ; so there gu , of which I beg you to inform her , for is but one half to be employed on what we she went likewise by my opinion . The de- read . " He told us , he read ...
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