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At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in transacting things of
rcal importance , with real men and real ... Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in
agitation : “ The Scotch treaty , ” he says , “ is the only thing now in which we are ...
At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in transacting things of
rcal importance , with real men and real ... Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in
agitation : “ The Scotch treaty , ” he says , “ is the only thing now in which we are ...
Page 118
Religion , ” says Waller , “ ought to be the first thing in our “ . purpose and desires
; but that which is first in dignity is not ... and the first “ impediment which men
naturally endeavour to remove , is the want of “ those things without which they ...
Religion , ” says Waller , “ ought to be the first thing in our “ . purpose and desires
; but that which is first in dignity is not ... and the first “ impediment which men
naturally endeavour to remove , is the want of “ those things without which they ...
Page 168
He sometimes labours with a thought ; but with « « the pudder he makes to bring
it into the world , ' tis commonly still - boin ; “ so that for want of learning and
elocution , he will never be able to express “ any thing either naturally or justly !
He sometimes labours with a thought ; but with « « the pudder he makes to bring
it into the world , ' tis commonly still - boin ; “ so that for want of learning and
elocution , he will never be able to express “ any thing either naturally or justly !
Page 173
He wrote a vindication of his own lines ; and , if he is forced to yield any thing ,
makes reprisals upon his enemy . To say that his answer is equal to the censure ,
is no high commendation . To expose Dryden ' s method of analysing his ...
He wrote a vindication of his own lines ; and , if he is forced to yield any thing ,
makes reprisals upon his enemy . To say that his answer is equal to the censure ,
is no high commendation . To expose Dryden ' s method of analysing his ...
Page 566
New things are made familiar , and familiar things are made new . ... that , though
nothing is disguised , every thing is striking , and we feel all the appetite of
curiosity for that from which we have a thousand times turned fastidiously away .
New things are made familiar , and familiar things are made new . ... that , though
nothing is disguised , every thing is striking , and we feel all the appetite of
curiosity for that from which we have a thousand times turned fastidiously away .
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| Title | Lives Volume 1 of The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | A. Miller, 1800 |
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