 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 278 pages
...refinement. I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...refinement " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia ni * suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...re.finement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that arc suspended in the .mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 64 pages
...POETRY. " I w'as desirous to add my name to this illustrions fraternity. I read all'the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that arc suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...refinement. '] " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat, by memory, the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found, that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...refinement." " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | 1826 - 450 pages
...fight of form-thing which I never beheld " I was defirous to add my name to before, or never heeded." this illuftrious fraternity. I read all the poets...memory the volumes that are fufpended in the mofque The bufmefsof a poet," faid Imlse, " is to examine, not the individual, but the fpecies ; to reaiark... | |
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I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. 
