Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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Seite viii
... death in his most awful forms . It gave Burke the power to perform the last feat of oratorical endurance , and pour forth floods of eloquence that shall never die , to the empty benches of an unheeding House . Courage was the key to ...
... death in his most awful forms . It gave Burke the power to perform the last feat of oratorical endurance , and pour forth floods of eloquence that shall never die , to the empty benches of an unheeding House . Courage was the key to ...
Seite ix
... death must be either an idiot or a liar , he after all only gave utterance to a simple truism in its extreme form . And we are told that when his time came he met the inevitable ' like a man . ' It seems not unreasonable to suppose that ...
... death must be either an idiot or a liar , he after all only gave utterance to a simple truism in its extreme form . And we are told that when his time came he met the inevitable ' like a man . ' It seems not unreasonable to suppose that ...
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... death of his mother , whom he fondly loved , that he might not be without the means of providing for her funeral : thus depriving himself of necessaries to lay by for the pecuniary accompaniments of a deep sorrow . He tried to obtain a ...
... death of his mother , whom he fondly loved , that he might not be without the means of providing for her funeral : thus depriving himself of necessaries to lay by for the pecuniary accompaniments of a deep sorrow . He tried to obtain a ...
Seite xvii
... death of Mrs. John- son . The letter in which Johnson announced his loss to his friend Dr. Taylor , was afterwards described by the latter as expressing grief in the strongest manner he had ever read . Happily for the sanctity of the ...
... death of Mrs. John- son . The letter in which Johnson announced his loss to his friend Dr. Taylor , was afterwards described by the latter as expressing grief in the strongest manner he had ever read . Happily for the sanctity of the ...
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... death - blow to patronage in literature . For Chesterfield wrote some recommendations of the work in the World newspaper , doubtless intended as a trap to catch a dedication . Johnson , however , had been , or conceived himself to have ...
... death - blow to patronage in literature . For Chesterfield wrote some recommendations of the work in the World newspaper , doubtless intended as a trap to catch a dedication . Johnson , however , had been , or conceived himself to have ...
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