Macaulay's Life of Samuel JohnsonGinn, 1903 - 94 pages |
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... Street Establishment , The Lives of the Poets . As we read Macaulay we should be particularly careful to think for ourselves . Mr. Gladstone has said : " Wherever and whenever read , he will be read with fascination , with delight ...
... Street Establishment , The Lives of the Poets . As we read Macaulay we should be particularly careful to think for ourselves . Mr. Gladstone has said : " Wherever and whenever read , he will be read with fascination , with delight ...
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... streets through which he walked . If by any chance he missed a post , he would go back a hundred yards and repair the omission . Under the influence 5 of his disease , his senses became morbidly torpid , and his imagination morbidly ...
... streets through which he walked . If by any chance he missed a post , he would go back a hundred yards and repair the omission . Under the influence 5 of his disease , his senses became morbidly torpid , and his imagination morbidly ...
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... streets of Rome . Pope's 5 admirable imitations of Horace's Satires and Epistles had recently appeared , were in every hand , and were by many readers thought superior to the originals . What Pope had done for Horace , Johnson aspired ...
... streets of Rome . Pope's 5 admirable imitations of Horace's Satires and Epistles had recently appeared , were in every hand , and were by many readers thought superior to the originals . What Pope had done for Horace , Johnson aspired ...
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... Street . The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety ; and the writer was evidently too partial to the Latin element of our language . But the little work , with all its faults , was 15 a masterpiece . No finer specimen of ...
... Street . The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety ; and the writer was evidently too partial to the Latin element of our language . But the little work , with all its faults , was 15 a masterpiece . No finer specimen of ...
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... with a hook through the streets , and to have a kick at his carcase before it is hurled into the Tiber . It must be owned too that in the concluding passage the Christian moralist has not made the most LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON 15.
... with a hook through the streets , and to have a kick at his carcase before it is hurled into the Tiber . It must be owned too that in the concluding passage the Christian moralist has not made the most LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON 15.
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