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Pagina 153
... write against others , and a calamity when we find our- selves overborne by the multitude of our assailants ; as the ... writing contrary to what he thought , was that of writing without thinking . After having remarked what is false in ...
... write against others , and a calamity when we find our- selves overborne by the multitude of our assailants ; as the ... writing contrary to what he thought , was that of writing without thinking . After having remarked what is false in ...
Pagina 333
Samuel Johnson. artificial . It is one thing to write , because there is something which the mind wishes to discharge ... writes , he says , when " he has just noth- ing else to do " ; yet Swift complains that he was never at leisure for ...
Samuel Johnson. artificial . It is one thing to write , because there is something which the mind wishes to discharge ... writes , he says , when " he has just noth- ing else to do " ; yet Swift complains that he was never at leisure for ...
Pagina 340
... write it ; an independent distich was preserved for an oppor- tunity of insertion ; and some little fragments have been found containing lines , or parts of lines , to be wrought upon at some other time . He was one of those few whose ...
... write it ; an independent distich was preserved for an oppor- tunity of insertion ; and some little fragments have been found containing lines , or parts of lines , to be wrought upon at some other time . He was one of those few whose ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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