Johnsonian Miscellanies, Volume 2George Birkbeck Norman Hill Harper and Brothers, 1897 |
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... reason for this . " If nothing but the bright side of characters should be shewn , we should sit down in despondency , and think it utterly impossible to imitate them in any thing . " Life , iv . 53. ' M'Leod asked , if it was not wrong ...
... reason for this . " If nothing but the bright side of characters should be shewn , we should sit down in despondency , and think it utterly impossible to imitate them in any thing . " Life , iv . 53. ' M'Leod asked , if it was not wrong ...
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... reasons ; Printer or Stationer to the East India Company ) in the early part of his life was seized with the cacoethes scribendi , and having finished a Pam- phlet wished much to have Mr. John- son's opinion of it , before he offered it ...
... reasons ; Printer or Stationer to the East India Company ) in the early part of his life was seized with the cacoethes scribendi , and having finished a Pam- phlet wished much to have Mr. John- son's opinion of it , before he offered it ...
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... reason to fear 5 . Johnson thought very well of Lord Kames's Elements of Criticism ; of other of his writings he thought very indifferently , and laughed much at his opinion , that war was a good thing occasionally , as so much valour ...
... reason to fear 5 . Johnson thought very well of Lord Kames's Elements of Criticism ; of other of his writings he thought very indifferently , and laughed much at his opinion , that war was a good thing occasionally , as so much valour ...
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... reason why it was omitted . But I am per- suaded that the person who is the object of Sir John's satire was so hurt at the home truths contained in it , that he tampered with the printers to have it suppressed . FRAGMENT . ' And here ...
... reason why it was omitted . But I am per- suaded that the person who is the object of Sir John's satire was so hurt at the home truths contained in it , that he tampered with the printers to have it suppressed . FRAGMENT . ' And here ...
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... reason , than that it required the previous labour of dressing . In a word , mental occupation was his sole pleasure , and the knowledge he acquired in the pursuit of it he was ever ready to communicate : in which faculty he was not ...
... reason , than that it required the previous labour of dressing . In a word , mental occupation was his sole pleasure , and the knowledge he acquired in the pursuit of it he was ever ready to communicate : in which faculty he was not ...
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