Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... Things were going not right , but wrong , ' dans ce meilleur des mondes possible , ' as Voltaire called it in a bitter jest . And Johnson was observer enough to know this well ; and had besides enough to remind him of it in his own life ...
... Things were going not right , but wrong , ' dans ce meilleur des mondes possible , ' as Voltaire called it in a bitter jest . And Johnson was observer enough to know this well ; and had besides enough to remind him of it in his own life ...
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... things we know , and some more we can infer . We know that he signed a 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 ...
... things we know , and some more we can infer . We know that he signed a 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 ...
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... thing to him , and he declared its hardness with perfect fearlessness of the consequences of his reasoning . In fact he did not see what those consequences were . He drew no conclusions as to the general government of the world from xvi ...
... thing to him , and he declared its hardness with perfect fearlessness of the consequences of his reasoning . In fact he did not see what those consequences were . He drew no conclusions as to the general government of the world from xvi ...
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... things compared3 ; and at another we find him , in his strong love for the new - born regularity of English numbers , lamenting that there is no fixed rule for the introduction of Alexandrine lines . With shrewd penetration we are ...
... things compared3 ; and at another we find him , in his strong love for the new - born regularity of English numbers , lamenting that there is no fixed rule for the introduction of Alexandrine lines . With shrewd penetration we are ...
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... thing , and allow to drop into the background that to which the culture is applied , the human heart , the human intellect - the man himself , in 1 Rasselas , chap . iv . short . This is a frame of mind which produces INTRODUCTION . xxix.
... thing , and allow to drop into the background that to which the culture is applied , the human heart , the human intellect - the man himself , in 1 Rasselas , chap . iv . short . This is a frame of mind which produces INTRODUCTION . xxix.
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