Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 83
... remarkable sentence by which he warned his congregation to beware of thorough - paced doctrine , that doctrine , which , coming in at one ear , paces through the head , and goes out at the other . Nothing worse than this appearing in ...
... remarkable sentence by which he warned his congregation to beware of thorough - paced doctrine , that doctrine , which , coming in at one ear , paces through the head , and goes out at the other . Nothing worse than this appearing in ...
Page 98
Samuel Johnson. remarkable for what they have atchieved ; and volumes have been written only to enumerate the miseries of the learned , and relate their unhappy lives and un- timely deaths . To these mournful narratives , I am about to ...
Samuel Johnson. remarkable for what they have atchieved ; and volumes have been written only to enumerate the miseries of the learned , and relate their unhappy lives and un- timely deaths . To these mournful narratives , I am about to ...
Page 227
... remarkable attention to the interest of his successors , preferably to his own present emoluments ; invincible patriotism , even to a country which he did not love ; his very various , well - devised , well - judged , and ex- tensive ...
... remarkable attention to the interest of his successors , preferably to his own present emoluments ; invincible patriotism , even to a country which he did not love ; his very various , well - devised , well - judged , and ex- tensive ...
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