Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... thoughts and his time . His own view of the years thus spent we may gather from the book itself . The letter L is near the middle of the alphabet ; Johnson therefore was about half - way through his task when he came to the word ...
... thoughts and his time . His own view of the years thus spent we may gather from the book itself . The letter L is near the middle of the alphabet ; Johnson therefore was about half - way through his task when he came to the word ...
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... thought , as formerly expressed in the Vanity of Human Wishes , was ready to come again to the surface , and form the motive of the plot . Rasselas was written in the evenings of a single week , sent to press as fast as it was written ...
... thought , as formerly expressed in the Vanity of Human Wishes , was ready to come again to the surface , and form the motive of the plot . Rasselas was written in the evenings of a single week , sent to press as fast as it was written ...
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... thoughts of the approach- ing minute . ' His breathing , which had been for some time difficult , quietly ceased at seven in the evening of December 13 , 1784- ' So passed the strong heroic soul away . ' He was buried in Westminster ...
... thoughts of the approach- ing minute . ' His breathing , which had been for some time difficult , quietly ceased at seven in the evening of December 13 , 1784- ' So passed the strong heroic soul away . ' He was buried in Westminster ...
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... thought . The man who considered he had refuted Berkeley's idealism by knocking his stick against the ground ... thoughts , ' he says , ' are often new but seldom natural , they are not obvious but neither are they just ; and the reader ...
... thought . The man who considered he had refuted Berkeley's idealism by knocking his stick against the ground ... thoughts , ' he says , ' are often new but seldom natural , they are not obvious but neither are they just ; and the reader ...
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... thought is ever worth following with reverent care , however much the necessary limitations of its age may have cramped its results . And , secondly , we find ourselves cautioned against smallness of criticism . ' It is not by comparing ...
... thought is ever worth following with reverent care , however much the necessary limitations of its age may have cramped its results . And , secondly , we find ourselves cautioned against smallness of criticism . ' It is not by comparing ...
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