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The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 43
by Samuel Johnson - 1818
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The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: Critical and historical essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...of the bed on which one of us was to lie." This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge." Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. " The Rehearsal," he said, very unjustly, " has not wit enough...
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Elements of the Art of Rhetoric: Adapted for Use in Colleges and Academies ...

Henry Noble Day - 1866 - 342 pages
...his Journey to the Hebrides thus ; " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose, started np at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge." Sometimes he translated alond. " The Rehearsal," he said, " has not wit enough to keep it sweet ;"...
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The Art of Discourse: A System of Rhetoric, Adapted for Use in Colleges and ...

Henry Noble Day - 1867 - 374 pages
...bed on which one of us was to lie." He records this incident in his Journey to the Hebrides thus : " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose,...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge." Sometimes he translated aloud. " The Rehearsal," he said, " has not wit enough to keep it sweet;" then,...
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Lectures on the English Language

George Perkins Marsh - 1867 - 766 pages
...of the bed on which one of us was to lie.' This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : ' Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose,...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.' Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. ' The Eehearsal,' he said, very unjustly, 'has not wit enough to...
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Home Pictures of English Poets, for Fireside and Schoolroom

Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 pages
...bed on which one of us was to lie." But in the " Journal " you find the incident transformed thus : " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose...entrance a man black as a Cyclops from the forge." Goldsmith said very truly, " If you were to write a fable about little fishes, doctor, you would make...
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Studies on Composition ...

David Pryde - 1871 - 190 pages
...was mainly given to the expression, and he produced the following pompous and absurd sentence : — " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose,...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge."* * In all circumstances, in every branch of knowledge as well as in composition, the idea and the expression...
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The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 5

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 704 pages
...of the bed on which one of us was to lie." This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge." Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. " The Rehearsal," he said, very unjustly, " has not wit enough...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

1872 - 556 pages
...of the bed on which one of us was to lie.' This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : ' Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repose,...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.' Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. ' The Rehearsal,' he said, very unjustly, ' has not wit enough...
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The Art of Discourse: A System of Rhetoric, Adapted for Use in Colleges and ...

Henry Noble Day - 1872 - 386 pages
...bed on which one of us was to lie." He records this incident in his Journey fa die Hebrides thus: " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose,...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge." Sometimes he translated aloud. " The Rehearsal," he said, " has not wit enough to keep it sweet;" then,...
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Reviews and essays from 'The Edinburgh'.

Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 pages
...of the bed on which one of us was to lie." This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge." Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. " The Rehearsal," he said, very unjustly, "has notwit enough to...
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