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... -Theocritus seems not to have seen that the brothers have their advantage in their argument over his Argonaut heroes.— ' The Sicilian Gossips ' is a piece of merit . ” 66 Callimachus is a writer of little excellence .
... -Theocritus seems not to have seen that the brothers have their advantage in their argument over his Argonaut heroes.— ' The Sicilian Gossips ' is a piece of merit . ” 66 Callimachus is a writer of little excellence .
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Secretary to the British Herring Fishery , remarkable for an extraordinary number of occasional verses , not of eminent merit , 1780 . 2 1 1 6 4 “ He repeated DR . JOHNSON . 5 harder minds than ours will do many things from 1780...
Secretary to the British Herring Fishery , remarkable for an extraordinary number of occasional verses , not of eminent merit , 1780 . 2 1 1 6 4 “ He repeated DR . JOHNSON . 5 harder minds than ours will do many things from 1780...
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... Farquhar a man whose writings have considerable merit . ” “ His friend Garrick was so busy in conducting the drama , that they could not have so much intercourse as Mr. Garrick used to profess an anxious wish that there should be .
... Farquhar a man whose writings have considerable merit . ” “ His friend Garrick was so busy in conducting the drama , that they could not have so much intercourse as Mr. Garrick used to profess an anxious wish that there should be .
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Dodsley himself , upon this being repeated to him , said , It was too much : ' it must be remembered , that Johnson always appeared not to be sufficiently sensible of the merit of Otway . “ Snatches of reading ( said he ) will not make ...
Dodsley himself , upon this being repeated to him , said , It was too much : ' it must be remembered , that Johnson always appeared not to be sufficiently sensible of the merit of Otway . “ Snatches of reading ( said he ) will not make ...
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... with such happy illustration from their writings , and in so luminous a manner , that indeed he may be allowed the full merit of novelty , and to have discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemisphere .
... with such happy illustration from their writings , and in so luminous a manner , that indeed he may be allowed the full merit of novelty , and to have discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemisphere .
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the ..., Volume 4 James Boswell Volledige weergave - 1835 |
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