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The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 43
by Samuel Johnson - 1818
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Literary Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 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 Effective Speaking Voice: With Passages for Practical Application

Joseph Albert Mosher - 1920 - 308 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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Expression in Speech and Writing

Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn - 1922 - 130 pages
...his adventures for publication, this same incident is described with typical Johnsonian dignity: ' Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.' But, of course, good literature is more helpful for its examples than for its warnings. I have already...
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Public Speaking for Business Men

William George Hoffman - 1923 - 316 pages
...out 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 to...
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Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: And Boswell's Journal ...

Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 pages
...was not likely to be ever repaid, and who could be recommended to him only by their necessities. "V We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of...elegant recital concurred to disgust us. We had been X/ frighted by a lady at Edinburgh, with discouraging representations of Highland lodgings. Sleep,...
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Complete Course in Public Speaking

Joseph Albert Mosher - 1920 - 668 pages
...out 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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English Literature: A Survey and a Commentary

Francis Meehan - 1928 - 764 pages
...could wish. But in his Journey to the Hebrides he writes the ENGLISH LITERATURE same thing as follows: "Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose,...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge." Perhaps, as Macaulay said, "Johnsonese" is "a language in which nobody ever quarrels. or drives bargains,...
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A Short History of English Litterature. 2nd Edition

156 pages
...out 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'." 76 back to his mother's. Next he was to go to London to study law, bat he never got farther than Dublin,...
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English Composition: With Chapters on Precis Writing, Prosody and Style

William Murison - 1926 - 452 pages
...of us was to lie.' This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : ' Out of one of the couches on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.' " In the following description of a woman in tears the extravagance of the last two lines is bombast....
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