Johnsonian Miscellanies, Volume 2George Birkbeck Norman Hill Harper and Brothers, 1897 |
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... thought very elegant ; but thought his life of Erasmus a dull book . He was very well acquainted with Psalmanaazar , the pretended Formosan , and said , he had never seen the close of the life of any one that he wished so much his own ...
... thought very elegant ; but thought his life of Erasmus a dull book . He was very well acquainted with Psalmanaazar , the pretended Formosan , and said , he had never seen the close of the life of any one that he wished so much his own ...
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... thought that those pompous Roman sentiments are not so difficult to be produced , as is vulgarly imagined . A stroke of nature is worth a hundred such thoughts as " When vice prevails , and impious men bear sway , The post of honour is ...
... thought that those pompous Roman sentiments are not so difficult to be produced , as is vulgarly imagined . A stroke of nature is worth a hundred such thoughts as " When vice prevails , and impious men bear sway , The post of honour is ...
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... thought the character of Queen Catherine in Henry the Eighth the most natural : - " I think so too , Madam , ( said he , ) and whenever you perform it I will once more hobble out to the theatre myself . " Ib . iv . 242 . ' The meek ...
... thought the character of Queen Catherine in Henry the Eighth the most natural : - " I think so too , Madam , ( said he , ) and whenever you perform it I will once more hobble out to the theatre myself . " Ib . iv . 242 . ' The meek ...
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... thought that the best of us were but unprofitable servants , and had much 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 ...
... thought that the best of us were but unprofitable servants , and had much 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 ...
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... thought highly of Mandeville's Treatise on the Hypochron- driacal Disease 2 . He would not allow the verb derange , a word at present much in use , to be an English word . Sir , said a gentleman who had some pretensions to literature ...
... thought highly of Mandeville's Treatise on the Hypochron- driacal Disease 2 . He would not allow the verb derange , a word at present much in use , to be an English word . Sir , said a gentleman who had some pretensions to literature ...
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