Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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Seite viii
... never die , to the empty benches of an unheeding House . Courage was the key to Johnson's character . Even his fear of death , about which we hear so much , may be to a certain extent misunderstood and exaggerated , unless the student ...
... never die , to the empty benches of an unheeding House . Courage was the key to Johnson's character . Even his fear of death , about which we hear so much , may be to a certain extent misunderstood and exaggerated , unless the student ...
Seite ix
... never left him , had nothing to fear in roughness from any adversary . And in his career too he was at once a type of a class and the noblest exception to the ordinary fate of that class . Johnson's life really begins where we find him ...
... never left him , had nothing to fear in roughness from any adversary . And in his career too he was at once a type of a class and the noblest exception to the ordinary fate of that class . Johnson's life really begins where we find him ...
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... never forgot or forgave himself for what he described as ' this only instance , I believe , of con- tumacy to my father , ' in refusing to take his place at the book - stall at Uttoxeter on market - day . Fifty years after , the Doctor ...
... never forgot or forgave himself for what he described as ' this only instance , I believe , of con- tumacy to my father , ' in refusing to take his place at the book - stall at Uttoxeter on market - day . Fifty years after , the Doctor ...
Seite xiv
... never found the sum at which he could purchase false allegiance from Samuel Johnson , though such price would have saved him from actual starvation . In accounting for many of the phenomena observable in Johnson's later career , it ...
... never found the sum at which he could purchase false allegiance from Samuel Johnson , though such price would have saved him from actual starvation . In accounting for many of the phenomena observable in Johnson's later career , it ...
Seite xvi
... never falls beneath the dignity of general com- plaint , and has no personal references to himself , is conveyed bitterly enough : — " Since worth , " he cries , " in these degenerate days , Wants ev'n the cheap reward of empty praise ...
... never falls beneath the dignity of general com- plaint , and has no personal references to himself , is conveyed bitterly enough : — " Since worth , " he cries , " in these degenerate days , Wants ev'n the cheap reward of empty praise ...
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