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The present age is very little inclined to favour any accounts of this kind , nor will the name of Aubrey much recommend it to credit : it ought not , however , to be omitted , because better evidence of a fact cannot easily be found ...
The present age is very little inclined to favour any accounts of this kind , nor will the name of Aubrey much recommend it to credit : it ought not , however , to be omitted , because better evidence of a fact cannot easily be found ...
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may depend upon his own opinion ; but that , in those s parts where fancy predominates , self - love may easily de- ceive . He might have observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been ...
may depend upon his own opinion ; but that , in those s parts where fancy predominates , self - love may easily de- ceive . He might have observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been ...
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He was remarkable for the power of reading with great rapidity , and of retaining with great fidelity what he so easily collected . He therefore always knew what the present question required ; and when his friends expressed their ...
He was remarkable for the power of reading with great rapidity , and of retaining with great fidelity what he so easily collected . He therefore always knew what the present question required ; and when his friends expressed their ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volume 83 of Oxford world's classics Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 493 pages |
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