Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... letter ' Tuus impransus , ' and we conclude that when he could not earn , he would not eat . We know that sometimes , when in want of a lodging , he would walk the streets all night with his friend Savage , and a smile struggles through ...
... letter ' Tuus impransus , ' and we conclude that when he could not earn , he would not eat . We know that sometimes , when in want of a lodging , he would walk the streets all night with his friend Savage , and a smile struggles through ...
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... 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 deepest recesses of human ...
... 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 deepest recesses of human ...
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... Letters to his Son , ' containing minute directions as to how he ought to proceed who would blow his nose in company . So instead of a dedication Lord Chesterfield got the letter given below , one of the finest , if not the very finest ...
... Letters to his Son , ' containing minute directions as to how he ought to proceed who would blow his nose in company . So instead of a dedication Lord Chesterfield got the letter given below , one of the finest , if not the very finest ...
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... accuracy of his knowledge of the English literature of his own century and the preceding one . These Lives first came out , In a letter to Boswell , May 3 , 1777 . in accordance with the original plan , as prefaces in INTRODUCTION . xxi.
... accuracy of his knowledge of the English literature of his own century and the preceding one . These Lives first came out , In a letter to Boswell , May 3 , 1777 . in accordance with the original plan , as prefaces in INTRODUCTION . xxi.
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... letters : and again , with even greater acuteness , against crediting a man's over - earnest or over - frequent protestations of his contempt for anything , for ' no man thinks much of that which he despises . " He gives an admirable ...
... letters : and again , with even greater acuteness , against crediting a man's over - earnest or over - frequent protestations of his contempt for anything , for ' no man thinks much of that which he despises . " He gives an admirable ...
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