The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable 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 ...
... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable 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 ...
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... shew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastick , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse ...
... shew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastick , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse ...
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... shew their learning was their whole endea - O vour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ...
... shew their learning was their whole endea - O vour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ...
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... shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine ... shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastick verses : In every thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it ...
... shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine ... shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastick verses : In every thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it ...
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... shew'd me you . DONNE . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's re- flection upon Man as a Microcosm : If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion All the world's riches : and in good men , this ...
... shew'd me you . DONNE . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's re- flection upon Man as a Microcosm : If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion All the world's riches : and in good men , this ...
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