Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 30
... is universally allowed to be interesting , instructive , eminently original : yet it has brought him nothing but con- tempt . All the world reads it , all the world delights THE MAN AND THE BOOK 31 in it yet we 30 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... is universally allowed to be interesting , instructive , eminently original : yet it has brought him nothing but con- tempt . All the world reads it , all the world delights THE MAN AND THE BOOK 31 in it yet we 30 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Page 31
... brought upon him . It was natural that he should show little discretion in cases in which the feelings or the honour of others might be concerned . No man , surely , ever published such stories respecting persons whom he professed to ...
... brought upon him . It was natural that he should show little discretion in cases in which the feelings or the honour of others might be concerned . No man , surely , ever published such stories respecting persons whom he professed to ...
Page 35
... brought into fashion , as it seems , by the magnificent Dorset , almost the only noble versifier in the court of Charles the Second who possessed talents for composition which were indepen- dent of the aid of a coronet . Montague owed ...
... brought into fashion , as it seems , by the magnificent Dorset , almost the only noble versifier in the court of Charles the Second who possessed talents for composition which were indepen- dent of the aid of a coronet . Montague owed ...
Page 60
... brought up , the gigantic body , the huge massy face , seamed with the scars of disease , the brown coat , the black worsted stockings , the grey wig with the scorched foretop , the dirty hands , the nails bitten and pared to the quick ...
... brought up , the gigantic body , the huge massy face , seamed with the scars of disease , the brown coat , the black worsted stockings , the grey wig with the scorched foretop , the dirty hands , the nails bitten and pared to the quick ...
Page 73
... brought me to ; and , after long musing , I lifted up my head ; but methought I saw as if the sun that shineth in the heavens did grudge to give me light ; and as if the very stones in the street , and tiles upon the houses , did band ...
... brought me to ; and , after long musing , I lifted up my head ; but methought I saw as if the sun that shineth in the heavens did grudge to give me light ; and as if the very stones in the street , and tiles upon the houses , did band ...
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