Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 5B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pagina's |
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... Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding , when Rogers was still a schoolboy , and Southey still in petticoats . Yet more strange did it seem that we should just have lost one whose name had been widely celebrated before any body ...
... Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding , when Rogers was still a schoolboy , and Southey still in petticoats . Yet more strange did it seem that we should just have lost one whose name had been widely celebrated before any body ...
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... Johnson began to examine the shelves . But in the whole collection there was only a single novel , Fielding's Amelia . An education , however , which to most girls would have been useless , but which suited Fanny's mind better than ela ...
... Johnson began to examine the shelves . But in the whole collection there was only a single novel , Fielding's Amelia . An education , however , which to most girls would have been useless , but which suited Fanny's mind better than ela ...
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... Johnson's heart by sounding with honest zeal the praises of the English Dictionary . In London the two friends met frequently , and agreed most harmoniously . One tie , indeed , was wanting to their mutual attachment . Burney loved his ...
... Johnson's heart by sounding with honest zeal the praises of the English Dictionary . In London the two friends met frequently , and agreed most harmoniously . One tie , indeed , was wanting to their mutual attachment . Burney loved his ...
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... Johnson , Richardson , Fielding , are all highly esteemed by the great body of in- telligent and well informed men . But Gray could see no merit in Rasselas ; and Johnson could see no merit in the Bard . Fielding thought Richardson a ...
... Johnson , Richardson , Fielding , are all highly esteemed by the great body of in- telligent and well informed men . But Gray could see no merit in Rasselas ; and Johnson could see no merit in the Bard . Fielding thought Richardson a ...
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... Johnson's Irene , for example , or Goldsmith's Good- natured Man . Had Crisp been wise , he would have thought himself happy in having purchased self - knowledge so cheap . He would have relinquished , without vain repinings , the hope ...
... Johnson's Irene , for example , or Goldsmith's Good- natured Man . Had Crisp been wise , he would have thought himself happy in having purchased self - knowledge so cheap . He would have relinquished , without vain repinings , the hope ...
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