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Samuel Johnson. therefore of impropriety ; and , to give efficacy to his words , concludes by lashing his breast with ... gives inferences instead of images , and shews not what may be supposed to have been seen , but what thoughts the ...
Samuel Johnson. therefore of impropriety ; and , to give efficacy to his words , concludes by lashing his breast with ... gives inferences instead of images , and shews not what may be supposed to have been seen , but what thoughts the ...
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... gives him up at once to laughter and contempt , ithout any quality that can dignify or protect him . In forming the ... give occasion , like his attack upon the bear nd fiddle , to express the ridiculous rigour of the sectaries ; ike ...
... gives him up at once to laughter and contempt , ithout any quality that can dignify or protect him . In forming the ... give occasion , like his attack upon the bear nd fiddle , to express the ridiculous rigour of the sectaries ; ike ...
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... give Juba an opportunity to demand Marcia of her father . But the quarrel and rage of Juba and Syphax , in the same Act , the invectives of Syphax against the Romans and Cato ; the advice that he gives Juba , in her father's hall , to ...
... give Juba an opportunity to demand Marcia of her father . But the quarrel and rage of Juba and Syphax , in the same Act , the invectives of Syphax against the Romans and Cato ; the advice that he gives Juba , in her father's hall , to ...
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