The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J. M. Dent & Company, 1931 |
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... talked of Lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an authour ; observing , that " he was thirty years in preparing his History , and that he employed a man to point it for him ; as if ( laughing ) another man could point his sense better ...
... talked of Lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an authour ; observing , that " he was thirty years in preparing his History , and that he employed a man to point it for him ; as if ( laughing ) another man could point his sense better ...
Pagina 225
... talked on that subject . This , it seems , exasperated him ; though he said nothing at the time . The cloud was charged with sulphureous vapour , which was afterwards to burst in thunder . - We talked of a gentleman who was running out ...
... talked on that subject . This , it seems , exasperated him ; though he said nothing at the time . The cloud was charged with sulphureous vapour , which was afterwards to burst in thunder . - We talked of a gentleman who was running out ...
Pagina 237
... talked of than Pope , and Homer is less talked of than Virgil ; but they are not less admired . We must read what the world reads at the moment . It has been maintained that this superfetation , this teeming of the press in modern times ...
... talked of than Pope , and Homer is less talked of than Virgil ; but they are not less admired . We must read what the world reads at the moment . It has been maintained that this superfetation , this teeming of the press in modern times ...
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