Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... anecdote which he might have thought it advisable to quote from other writers . This would have been a much more convenient course for the reader , who has now constantly to keep his eye on the margin in order to see whether he is perusing.
... anecdote which he might have thought it advisable to quote from other writers . This would have been a much more convenient course for the reader , who has now constantly to keep his eye on the margin in order to see whether he is perusing.
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... thought it his duty to pass several months without joining in public worship , solely because the ministers of the kirk had not been ordained by bishops . His mode of estimating the piety of his neighbours was somewhat singular ...
... thought it his duty to pass several months without joining in public worship , solely because the ministers of the kirk had not been ordained by bishops . His mode of estimating the piety of his neighbours was somewhat singular ...
Page 50
... thought the Eneid a greater poem than the Iliad . Indeed he well might have thought so ; for he preferred Pope's Iliad to Homer's . He pronounced that , after Hoole's JOHNSON'S LITERARY JUDGMENTS 51 translation of Tasso , Fairfax's ...
... thought the Eneid a greater poem than the Iliad . Indeed he well might have thought so ; for he preferred Pope's Iliad to Homer's . He pronounced that , after Hoole's JOHNSON'S LITERARY JUDGMENTS 51 translation of Tasso , Fairfax's ...
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... thoughts on national manners were the thoughts of one who had seen but little , of one who had passed his time almost wholly in cities . This feeling , however , soon passed away . It is remarkable that to the last he entertained a ...
... thoughts on national manners were the thoughts of one who had seen but little , of one who had passed his time almost wholly in cities . This feeling , however , soon passed away . It is remarkable that to the last he entertained a ...
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... of which , he probably thought , would die with him , are likely to be remembered as long as the English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe . JOHN BUNYAN ( December 1831 ) The Pilgrim's Progress , 60 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... of which , he probably thought , would die with him , are likely to be remembered as long as the English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe . JOHN BUNYAN ( December 1831 ) The Pilgrim's Progress , 60 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
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