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Pagina xv
... language ; and the world had wanted ' a work to which it refers as a manual of amusement , a repository of wit , wisdom , and morals , and a lively and faithful history of the manners and literature of England , during a period hardly ...
... language ; and the world had wanted ' a work to which it refers as a manual of amusement , a repository of wit , wisdom , and morals , and a lively and faithful history of the manners and literature of England , during a period hardly ...
Pagina xvi
... language . " - Life of Beattie , vol . ii . p . 166 . Cumberland . " Under the hospitable roof of Mr. Dilly , the biographer of Johnson passed many jovial , joyous hours : here he has located some of the liveliest scenes and most ...
... language . " - Life of Beattie , vol . ii . p . 166 . Cumberland . " Under the hospitable roof of Mr. Dilly , the biographer of Johnson passed many jovial , joyous hours : here he has located some of the liveliest scenes and most ...
Pagina xix
... language can boast . Even if it were possible to consider his delineation of Johnson merely as a character in a novel of the period , the world would have owed him , and acknowledged , no trivial obligation . But what can the best ...
... language can boast . Even if it were possible to consider his delineation of Johnson merely as a character in a novel of the period , the world would have owed him , and acknowledged , no trivial obligation . But what can the best ...
Pagina xxiii
... Language.— Progress of the Work . — King's Head Club in Ivy Lane . Visit to Tunbridge Wells . - - " Life of Roscommon . " . " Preface to Dodsley's Preceptor . " - " Vision of Theodore " The Vanity of Human Wishes . " the Hermit ...
... Language.— Progress of the Work . — King's Head Club in Ivy Lane . Visit to Tunbridge Wells . - - " Life of Roscommon . " . " Preface to Dodsley's Preceptor . " - " Vision of Theodore " The Vanity of Human Wishes . " the Hermit ...
Pagina 18
... language in which he has embalmed so many emi- nent persons , the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to ...
... language in which he has embalmed so many emi- nent persons , the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to ...
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