Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 16
... letters , ' says the editor , ( which Dr. Strahan seems not to have understood ) probably mean OvnToi piλoi , departed friends.'1 Johnson was not a first - rate Greek scholar ; but he knew more Greek than most boys when they leave ...
... letters , ' says the editor , ( which Dr. Strahan seems not to have understood ) probably mean OvnToi piλoi , departed friends.'1 Johnson was not a first - rate Greek scholar ; but he knew more Greek than most boys when they leave ...
Page 29
... letters , and in these letters he is always ranting or twaddling . Logic , eloquence , wit , taste , all those things which are generally considered as making a book valuable , were utterly wanting to him . He had , indeed , a quick ...
... letters , and in these letters he is always ranting or twaddling . Logic , eloquence , wit , taste , all those things which are generally considered as making a book valuable , were utterly wanting to him . He had , indeed , a quick ...
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... letters was most miserable and degraded . It was a dark night be- tween two sunny days . The age of patronage had passed away . The age of general curiosity and in- telligence had not arrived . The number of readers is at present so ...
... letters was most miserable and degraded . It was a dark night be- tween two sunny days . The age of patronage had passed away . The age of general curiosity and in- telligence had not arrived . The number of readers is at present so ...
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... letters . But soon after the accession of the house of Hanover a change took place . The supreme power passed to a man who cared little for poetry or eloquence . The importance of the House of Commons was constantly on the increase ...
... letters . But soon after the accession of the house of Hanover a change took place . The supreme power passed to a man who cared little for poetry or eloquence . The importance of the House of Commons was constantly on the increase ...
Page 40
... letters with whom Johnson was henceforth to associate , were for the most part persons widely different from those who had walked about with him all night in the streets for want of a lodging . Burke , Robertson , the Wartons , Gray ...
... letters with whom Johnson was henceforth to associate , were for the most part persons widely different from those who had walked about with him all night in the streets for want of a lodging . Burke , Robertson , the Wartons , Gray ...
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