Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 14
... becomes justly ridiculous if , when no longer able to construe a plain sentence , he affects to sit in judgment on the most delicate questions of style and metre . From one blunder , a blunder which no good scholar would have made , Mr ...
... becomes justly ridiculous if , when no longer able to construe a plain sentence , he affects to sit in judgment on the most delicate questions of style and metre . From one blunder , a blunder which no good scholar would have made , Mr ...
Page 22
... free- dom ; and the borrowed passages , so selected , and accompanied by such comments , would have become original . They would have dovetailed into the MR . CROKER'S INSERTIONS 23 work . No hitch , 22 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... free- dom ; and the borrowed passages , so selected , and accompanied by such comments , would have become original . They would have dovetailed into the MR . CROKER'S INSERTIONS 23 work . No hitch , 22 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Page 23
... become as flat as Champagne in decanters , or Herodotus in Beloe's version . Sir John Hawkins , it is true , loses nothing ; and for the best of reasons . Sir John Hawkins has nothing to lose . The course which Mr. Croker ought to have ...
... become as flat as Champagne in decanters , or Herodotus in Beloe's version . Sir John Hawkins , it is true , loses nothing ; and for the best of reasons . Sir John Hawkins has nothing to lose . The course which Mr. Croker ought to have ...
Page 24
... a Diatessaron , the peculiar charm which belongs to the narrative of the disciple whom Jesus loved ? The feeling of a reader who has become intimate DE EDITIONIBUS PRINCIPIBUS 25 with any great original work is 24 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... a Diatessaron , the peculiar charm which belongs to the narrative of the disciple whom Jesus loved ? The feeling of a reader who has become intimate DE EDITIONIBUS PRINCIPIBUS 25 with any great original work is 24 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
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... become classical , and till the pension bestowed on him by the Crown had placed him above poverty . Of those eminent men who were his most intimate associates towards the close of his life , the only one , as far as we remember , who ...
... become classical , and till the pension bestowed on him by the Crown had placed him above poverty . Of those eminent men who were his most intimate associates towards the close of his life , the only one , as far as we remember , who ...
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