The Life of Samuel JohnsonJ. M. Dent, 1907 - 1172 pagina's |
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Pagina 22
... writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then ... write several of the Lives ; which , ( as we are told , ) he , accordingly , performed . He was farther useful in ...
... writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then ... write several of the Lives ; which , ( as we are told , ) he , accordingly , performed . He was farther useful in ...
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... write chiefly from their own minds . The Monthly Reviewers are duller men , and are glad to read the books through . " He talked of Lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an authour ; observing , that " he was thirty years in preparing his ...
... write chiefly from their own minds . The Monthly Reviewers are duller men , and are glad to read the books through . " He talked of Lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an authour ; observing , that " he was thirty years in preparing his ...
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... write was a distinction at first ; but we see when reading and writing have become general , the common people keep their stations . And so , were higher attainments to become general , the effect would be the same . " " Goldsmith ( he ...
... write was a distinction at first ; but we see when reading and writing have become general , the common people keep their stations . And so , were higher attainments to become general , the effect would be the same . " " Goldsmith ( he ...
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... writing employed in them , when the authours were to remain unknown , and so could not have the motive of fame . JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , those who write in them , write well in order to be paid well . " Soon after this day , he went to ...
... writing employed in them , when the authours were to remain unknown , and so could not have the motive of fame . JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , those who write in them , write well in order to be paid well . " Soon after this day , he went to ...
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... write to you at all . [ Here an account of having been afflicted with a return of melancholy or bad spirits ... writing very long letters to him when I was upon the continent : which was most certainly true : but it seems my friend ...
... write to you at all . [ Here an account of having been afflicted with a return of melancholy or bad spirits ... writing very long letters to him when I was upon the continent : which was most certainly true : but it seems my friend ...
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