The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of ...
... elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of ...
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... elegance , of a particular provision made by Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such " 66 an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail ...
... elegance , of a particular provision made by Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such " 66 an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail ...
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... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who at- tended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falk- land , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford ...
... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who at- tended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falk- land , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford ...
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... elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation ; " The Scotch ...
... elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation ; " The Scotch ...
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... elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities ...
... elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities ...
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