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THEY were in very little care to clothe their notions with elegance of dress , and therefore miss the notice and the praise which are often gained by those , who think less , but are more diligent to adorn their thoughts That a mistress ...
THEY were in very little care to clothe their notions with elegance of dress , and therefore miss the notice and the praise which are often gained by those , who think less , but are more diligent to adorn their thoughts That a mistress ...
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... sent for his godson , and placed him at his own seat in Yorkshire , where he was instructed in Latin ; which he learned so as to write it with purity and elegance , though he was never able to retain the rules of grammar .
... sent for his godson , and placed him at his own seat in Yorkshire , where he was instructed in Latin ; which he learned so as to write it with purity and elegance , though he was never able to retain the rules of grammar .
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Why it should find any difficulty in breaking the shackles of verbal interpretation , which must for ever debar it from elegance , it would be difficult to conjecture , were not the power of prejudice every day observed .
Why it should find any difficulty in breaking the shackles of verbal interpretation , which must for ever debar it from elegance , it would be difficult to conjecture , were not the power of prejudice every day observed .
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Volume 1 Volumes 770-771 of Everyman's Library Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Samuel Johnson Volume 84 of Worlds classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Frowde, 191? |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Feb 2019 |
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