The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... reafon to fufpect that his father was a fectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his fon , and confequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood reprefents as ftruggling carneftly to procure him a literary ...
... reafon to fufpect that his father was a fectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his fon , and confequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood reprefents as ftruggling carneftly to procure him a literary ...
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... another , may not promife to aid him in any injurious act , because no power can compel active obe- dience . He may engage to do nothing , but not to do ill . There There is reafon to think that Cowley promised little . 14 COWLEY .
... another , may not promife to aid him in any injurious act , because no power can compel active obe- dience . He may engage to do nothing , but not to do ill . There There is reafon to think that Cowley promised little . 14 COWLEY .
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... reafon for fuppofing that he ever at- tempted practice ; but his preparatory ftudies have contributed fomething to the honour of his country . Confidering Botany as neceffary to a phyfician , he re- tired into Kent to gather plants ...
... reafon for fuppofing that he ever at- tempted practice ; but his preparatory ftudies have contributed fomething to the honour of his country . Confidering Botany as neceffary to a phyfician , he re- tired into Kent to gather plants ...
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... reafon : it certainly has , in a very great de- gree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merri- * Here is an error in the defignation of this comedy , which our author copied from the title - page of the latter editions of ...
... reafon : it certainly has , in a very great de- gree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merri- * Here is an error in the defignation of this comedy , which our author copied from the title - page of the latter editions of ...
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... Reafon is a paffage which Bentley , in the only English verfes which he is known to have written , feems to have copied , though with the infe riority of an imitator . The holy Book like the eighth sphere doth fhine With thousand lights ...
... Reafon is a paffage which Bentley , in the only English verfes which he is known to have written , feems to have copied , though with the infe riority of an imitator . The holy Book like the eighth sphere doth fhine With thousand lights ...
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