Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... Lord Bacon ; ' Pray Sir , do you read books through ? ' said Johnson ; —and a com- parison of the two sayings is instructive . But he who would travel express along the road to knowledge must pay the express fare ; and Johnson paid it ...
... Lord Bacon ; ' Pray Sir , do you read books through ? ' said Johnson ; —and a com- parison of the two sayings is instructive . But he who would travel express along the road to knowledge must pay the express fare ; and Johnson paid it ...
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... Lord Chesterfield got the letter given below , one of the finest , if not the very finest , of the specimens of indignant epistolary com- position which our language contains : - ' February 7 , 1755 . ' MY LORD , I have been lately ...
... Lord Chesterfield got the letter given below , one of the finest , if not the very finest , of the specimens of indignant epistolary com- position which our language contains : - ' February 7 , 1755 . ' MY LORD , I have been lately ...
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... lord , have now passed , since I waited in your outward rooms , or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties , of which it is useless to complain , and have brought it , at last ...
... lord , have now passed , since I waited in your outward rooms , or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties , of which it is useless to complain , and have brought it , at last ...
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... Lord Bute , it was decided to award to Johnson a pension of £ 300 a year , in consideration of his distinguished services to literature . It is no small testimony to Johnson's independence of spirit that is recorded in the fact that ...
... Lord Bute , it was decided to award to Johnson a pension of £ 300 a year , in consideration of his distinguished services to literature . It is no small testimony to Johnson's independence of spirit that is recorded in the fact that ...
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... Lord Hastings , composed with great ambition of such conceits as , notwithstanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley still kept in reputation . Lord Hastings died of the small - pox , and his poet has ...
... Lord Hastings , composed with great ambition of such conceits as , notwithstanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley still kept in reputation . Lord Hastings died of the small - pox , and his poet has ...
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