AddisonMacmillan, 1909 - 197 pagina's |
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Pagina 1
... never intended , to understand the strange moral twist which distorted a nature by no means devoid of noble instincts . Johnson was fortunate in the companionship of perhaps the best biographer who ever lived . But of the real life and ...
... never intended , to understand the strange moral twist which distorted a nature by no means devoid of noble instincts . Johnson was fortunate in the companionship of perhaps the best biographer who ever lived . But of the real life and ...
Pagina 6
... never entirely nor at once to depart from antiquity . We found these institutions on the whole favourable to morality and discipline , and we thought they were susceptible of amend- ment without altering the ground . We thought they ...
... never entirely nor at once to depart from antiquity . We found these institutions on the whole favourable to morality and discipline , and we thought they were susceptible of amend- ment without altering the ground . We thought they ...
Pagina 16
... never represented any state of existing society is a paradox which chooses to leave out of account the contemporary attack on the stage made by Jeremy Collier , the admissions of Dryden , and all those valuable glimpses into the manners ...
... never represented any state of existing society is a paradox which chooses to leave out of account the contemporary attack on the stage made by Jeremy Collier , the admissions of Dryden , and all those valuable glimpses into the manners ...
Pagina 17
... never a man in the town lives more like a gentleman with his wife than I do . I never mind her motions ; she never inquires into mine . We speak to one another civilly ; hate one another heartily ; and , because it is vulgar to lie and ...
... never a man in the town lives more like a gentleman with his wife than I do . I never mind her motions ; she never inquires into mine . We speak to one another civilly ; hate one another heartily ; and , because it is vulgar to lie and ...
Pagina 32
... never published . For Ovid he seems , on the whole , to have had less inclination . At Tonson's instance he translated the second book of the Metamorphoses , which was first printed in the volume of Miscellanies that appeared in 1697 ...
... never published . For Ovid he seems , on the whole , to have had less inclination . At Tonson's instance he translated the second book of the Metamorphoses , which was first printed in the volume of Miscellanies that appeared in 1697 ...
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