The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 pages |
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... written by other correspondents . When the complaints of the nation against the administration of Sir Robert Walpole became loud , and a motion was made , february 13th 1740-1 , to remove him from his Majesty's counsels for ever ...
... written by other correspondents . When the complaints of the nation against the administration of Sir Robert Walpole became loud , and a motion was made , february 13th 1740-1 , to remove him from his Majesty's counsels for ever ...
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... written any thing else , would have placed him very high in the rank of authors . His narrative is remarkably smooth . and well disposed ; his observations are just , and his reflections disclose the inmost recesses of the human heart ...
... written any thing else , would have placed him very high in the rank of authors . His narrative is remarkably smooth . and well disposed ; his observations are just , and his reflections disclose the inmost recesses of the human heart ...
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... written , as he says , " with little assistance of the learned , and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscuri- ties of retirement , or under the shelter of academic bowers , but amidst inconvenience and distraction ...
... written , as he says , " with little assistance of the learned , and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscuri- ties of retirement , or under the shelter of academic bowers , but amidst inconvenience and distraction ...
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... written on the spur of the occasion , and never seen entire by the author till they returned to him from the press ... writing he seems to have made a kind of trade . Though he had exhausted , during the time that he OF DR . JOHNSON . 11.
... written on the spur of the occasion , and never seen entire by the author till they returned to him from the press ... writing he seems to have made a kind of trade . Though he had exhausted , during the time that he OF DR . JOHNSON . 11.
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... writing that I know of . " He issued proposals , however , of considerable length , in which he showed that he knew ... written as hastily as an ordinary letter ; and one in particular composed at Oxford was begun only half an hour ...
... writing that I know of . " He issued proposals , however , of considerable length , in which he showed that he knew ... written as hastily as an ordinary letter ; and one in particular composed at Oxford was begun only half an hour ...
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