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Pagina 193
... known . This part of his story well deserves to be remembered ; it may afford useful admonition and powerful encouragement to men , whose abilities have been made for a time useless by their passions or pleasures , and who , having lost ...
... known . This part of his story well deserves to be remembered ; it may afford useful admonition and powerful encouragement to men , whose abilities have been made for a time useless by their passions or pleasures , and who , having lost ...
Pagina 298
... known ; nor can the satire be understood but by the learned he raises phantoms of absurdity , and then drives them away . He cures diseases that were never felt . For this reason this joint production of three great writers has never ...
... known ; nor can the satire be understood but by the learned he raises phantoms of absurdity , and then drives them away . He cures diseases that were never felt . For this reason this joint production of three great writers has never ...
Pagina 469
... known , before it can be decided whose terror is rational , and whose is ridiculous ; who is to be pitied , and who to be despised . Both are for a while equally exposed to laughter , but both are not therefore equally contemptible . In ...
... known , before it can be decided whose terror is rational , and whose is ridiculous ; who is to be pitied , and who to be despised . Both are for a while equally exposed to laughter , but both are not therefore equally contemptible . In ...
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Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2 Samuel Johnson Fragmentweergave - 191? |
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