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Pagina 92
... perhaps unconsciously , paid to this great man by his bio- graphers : every house in which he resided is his- torically mentioned , as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence . The King , with ...
... perhaps unconsciously , paid to this great man by his bio- graphers : every house in which he resided is his- torically mentioned , as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence . The King , with ...
Pagina 125
... perhaps no poem , of the same length , from which so little can be taken without apparent mutilation . Here are no funeral games , nor is there any long description of a shield . The short digressions at the beginning of the third ...
... perhaps no poem , of the same length , from which so little can be taken without apparent mutilation . Here are no funeral games , nor is there any long description of a shield . The short digressions at the beginning of the third ...
Pagina 157
Samuel Johnson. Nothing , and perhaps some others , are I believe genuine , and perhaps most of those which the late collection exhibits . As he cannot be supposed to have found leisure for any course of continued study , his pieces are ...
Samuel Johnson. Nothing , and perhaps some others , are I believe genuine , and perhaps most of those which the late collection exhibits . As he cannot be supposed to have found leisure for any course of continued study , his pieces are ...
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