The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 1Cowie, 1825 |
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... suffered to represent his virtues with exaggeration ; nor should malignity be allowed , under a specious dis- guise , to magnify mere defects , the usual failings of human nature , into vice or gross deformity . The lights and shades b ...
... suffered to represent his virtues with exaggeration ; nor should malignity be allowed , under a specious dis- guise , to magnify mere defects , the usual failings of human nature , into vice or gross deformity . The lights and shades b ...
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... is too late to change it ; or , in the ardour of invention , diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance , which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or re- duce GENIUS OF DR . JOHNSON . xxxi.
... is too late to change it ; or , in the ardour of invention , diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance , which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or re- duce GENIUS OF DR . JOHNSON . xxxi.
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With Murphy's Essay Samuel Johnson Robert Lynam. of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or re- duce . " Of this excellent production the number sold on each day did not amount to five hundred of course , the bookseller , who ...
With Murphy's Essay Samuel Johnson Robert Lynam. of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or re- duce . " Of this excellent production the number sold on each day did not amount to five hundred of course , the bookseller , who ...
Page xxxiii
... suffer by the discovery . More malice to a deceased friend cannot well be imagined . Hawkins adds , " that he wished well to the argument must be inferred from the preface , which indubitably was written by him . " The preface , it is ...
... suffer by the discovery . More malice to a deceased friend cannot well be imagined . Hawkins adds , " that he wished well to the argument must be inferred from the preface , which indubitably was written by him . " The preface , it is ...
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... suffer me to continue it . When I had once addressed your lordship in public , I had exhausted all the art of pleasing , which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess . I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to ...
... suffer me to continue it . When I had once addressed your lordship in public , I had exhausted all the art of pleasing , which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess . I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to ...
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