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Pagina xxiii
... soon took its rank among the most instructive books in our language ; and highly as it is already valued , it will perhaps be perused by posterity with increased delight VOL . I. b when all the actors in the scene shall be num-
... soon took its rank among the most instructive books in our language ; and highly as it is already valued , it will perhaps be perused by posterity with increased delight VOL . I. b when all the actors in the scene shall be num-
Pagina xxiii
... soon . Ib . p . 212. Whether I shall find upon the coast a Calypso that will court , or a Polypheme that will eat me . But if Polypheme comes to me , have at his eye . Ib . Ib . Ib . p . 213. 1. 19. Nor know in what state my little ...
... soon . Ib . p . 212. Whether I shall find upon the coast a Calypso that will court , or a Polypheme that will eat me . But if Polypheme comes to me , have at his eye . Ib . Ib . Ib . p . 213. 1. 19. Nor know in what state my little ...
Pagina 7
... excellence to biography are of a vola- tile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can portray a living acquaintance , except by his DR . JOHNSON .
... excellence to biography are of a vola- tile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can portray a living acquaintance , except by his DR . JOHNSON .
Pagina 8
... soon a succession of copies will lose all resem- blance of the original . " I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness , on some occasions , of my detail of John- son's conversation , and how happily it is ...
... soon a succession of copies will lose all resem- blance of the original . " I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness , on some occasions , of my detail of John- son's conversation , and how happily it is ...
Pagina 49
... soon found could be of much service to him in his trade , by his knowledge of literature ; and he even obtained the assistance of his pen in furnishing some numbers of a periodical essay printed in the newspaper , of which Warren was ...
... soon found could be of much service to him in his trade , by his knowledge of literature ; and he even obtained the assistance of his pen in furnishing some numbers of a periodical essay printed in the newspaper , of which Warren was ...
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