Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... easily reaches heights which performance never will attain : and when she has mounted the summit of perfection , derides her follower , who dies in the pursuit . Not therefore to raise expectation , but to repress it , I here lay before ...
... easily reaches heights which performance never will attain : and when she has mounted the summit of perfection , derides her follower , who dies in the pursuit . Not therefore to raise expectation , but to repress it , I here lay before ...
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... easily deduced from a Saxon original , I shall not often inquire further , since we know not the parent of the Saxon dialect ; but when it is bor- rowed from the French , I shall show whence the French is apparently derived . Where a ...
... easily deduced from a Saxon original , I shall not often inquire further , since we know not the parent of the Saxon dialect ; but when it is bor- rowed from the French , I shall show whence the French is apparently derived . Where a ...
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... easily they may give occasion to the contemptuous merriment of sportive idleness , and the gloomy cen- sures of arrogant stupidity ; but dulness it is easy to despise , and laughter it is easy to repay . I shall not be solicitous what ...
... easily they may give occasion to the contemptuous merriment of sportive idleness , and the gloomy cen- sures of arrogant stupidity ; but dulness it is easy to despise , and laughter it is easy to repay . I shall not be solicitous what ...
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... easily regret an attempt which has procured me the ho- nour of appearing thus publickly , My lord , Your lordship's most obedient , and most humble servant , SAM . JOHNSON . PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY . IT is the fate 80 THE PLAN ...
... easily regret an attempt which has procured me the ho- nour of appearing thus publickly , My lord , Your lordship's most obedient , and most humble servant , SAM . JOHNSON . PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY . IT is the fate 80 THE PLAN ...
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... easily excused than superfluity . In the investigation both of the orthography and signification of words , their etymology was neces- sarily to be considered , and they were therefore to be divided into primitives and derivatives . A ...
... easily excused than superfluity . In the investigation both of the orthography and signification of words , their etymology was neces- sarily to be considered , and they were therefore to be divided into primitives and derivatives . A ...
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