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Pagina xi
... doubts may have existed as to the prudence or the pro- priety of the original publication - however naturally private confidence was alarmed , or individual vanity offended , the voices of criticism and complaint were soon drowned in ...
... doubts may have existed as to the prudence or the pro- priety of the original publication - however naturally private confidence was alarmed , or individual vanity offended , the voices of criticism and complaint were soon drowned in ...
Pagina xiv
... doubt , have thought more respectable ; and have been pictured on the walls of Auchinleck ( the very name of which we never should have heard ) by some stiff , provincial painter , in a lawyer's wig or a squire's hunting cap ; but his ...
... doubt , have thought more respectable ; and have been pictured on the walls of Auchinleck ( the very name of which we never should have heard ) by some stiff , provincial painter , in a lawyer's wig or a squire's hunting cap ; but his ...
Pagina xv
... doubt . with some little share of superstition ; which had , probably in some degree , been fostered by his habits of intimacy with Dr. Johnson ) , perhaps not always sufficient to regulate his imagination , or direct his conduct , yet ...
... doubt . with some little share of superstition ; which had , probably in some degree , been fostered by his habits of intimacy with Dr. Johnson ) , perhaps not always sufficient to regulate his imagination , or direct his conduct , yet ...
Pagina xix
... doubt , excepting , yet hardly excepting , a few immortal monuments of creative genius , that English book which , were this island to be sunk to - morrow , with all that it inhabits , would be most prized in other days and countries ...
... doubt , excepting , yet hardly excepting , a few immortal monuments of creative genius , that English book which , were this island to be sunk to - morrow , with all that it inhabits , would be most prized in other days and countries ...
Pagina 12
... doubts I at any time entertained , have been entirely removed by the very favourable reception with which it has been honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my Book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I have ...
... doubts I at any time entertained , have been entirely removed by the very favourable reception with which it has been honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my Book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I have ...
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