Johnsonian Miscellanies, Volume 2George Birkbeck Norman Hill Harper and Brothers, 1897 - Authors, English |
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... hear , that we are all equal 2 . When some one was lamenting Foote's unlucky fate in being kicked in Dublin , Johnson said he was glad of it ; he is rising in the world , said he : when he was in England , no one thought it worth while ...
... hear , that we are all equal 2 . When some one was lamenting Foote's unlucky fate in being kicked in Dublin , Johnson said he was glad of it ; he is rising in the world , said he : when he was in England , no one thought it worth while ...
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... hear in the House of Com- mons in a year , except from Burke . Jones commended the part which treats of language ; Burke that which describes the inhabitants of moun- tainous countries . " Life , iii . 137. It was in the reflections on ...
... hear in the House of Com- mons in a year , except from Burke . Jones commended the part which treats of language ; Burke that which describes the inhabitants of moun- tainous countries . " Life , iii . 137. It was in the reflections on ...
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... hear no more of the tinsel of Robertson , and the foppery of Dalrymple " . He said , Hume has taken his style from Voltaire . He would never hear Hume mentioned with any temper : - ' A man , ' said he , ' who endeavoured to persuade his ...
... hear no more of the tinsel of Robertson , and the foppery of Dalrymple " . He said , Hume has taken his style from Voltaire . He would never hear Hume mentioned with any temper : - ' A man , ' said he , ' who endeavoured to persuade his ...
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... hear , and took care to write down soon after . ' I have read his History of the Stage , which is a very capital piece of criticism and anti - agrarianism 2. I shall now read all Shakspeare through , in a very different manner from what ...
... hear , and took care to write down soon after . ' I have read his History of the Stage , which is a very capital piece of criticism and anti - agrarianism 2. I shall now read all Shakspeare through , in a very different manner from what ...
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... hear from you . Having harassed you with so much about myself , I have left no room for any thing else . We had a numerous club on Tuesday : Fox in the chair , quoting Homer and Fielding , & c . to the astonishment of Jo . Warton ; who ...
... hear from you . Having harassed you with so much about myself , I have left no room for any thing else . We had a numerous club on Tuesday : Fox in the chair , quoting Homer and Fielding , & c . to the astonishment of Jo . Warton ; who ...
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