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prefaces biographical and critical to the works of the english poets - Page 9
by SAMUEL johnson - 1781
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 294 pages
...of practice, or eminence of popularity. A phyfician in a great city feems to be the mere plaything thing of Fortune; his degree of reputation is, for...that reject him, know not his deficience. By an acute obfervcr, who had looked on the tranfactions of the medical world for half a century, a very curious...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 522 pages
...of pra<5ticex or eminence of popularity. A phyfician in a great city feems to be the mere play-thing of Fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the...his excellence; they that reject him, know not his defjcience. By an acute obferver, who had looked on the tranfactions of the medical world for half...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...of practice, or eminence of popularity. A phyfician in a great eity feems to be the mere play-thing of Fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the...that employ him, know not his excellence ; they that reje£t him, know not his deficience. By an acute obferver, who had looked on tlje tranfaclions of...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...of pra&ice, or eminence of popularity. A phyfician in a great city feems to be the mere play-thing of Fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the...that employ him, know not his excellence ; they that re'jeft him, know not his deficience. By an acute obferver, who had looked on the tranfaftions of the...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...of practice, or eminence of popularity. A phyfician in a great city feems to be the mere play-thing of Fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the...deficience. By an acute obferver, who had looked on the tranfaclions of the medical world for half a century, a very curious book, might be written on the...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...of practice, or eminence of popularity. A phyfician in a great city ieetns to be the mere play-thing of Fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the moft...that reject him, know not his deficience. By an acute dbferver, who had looked on the tranfadUons of the medical world for half a century, a very curious...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 6

English poets - 1790 - 312 pages
...or eminence of popularity. A H 3 phyfic'an phyfician in a great city fecms to be the mere play-thing of Fortune ; his degree of reputation is, for the...that employ him, know not his excellence; they that rejcct him, know not his deficience. By any acute obferver, who had looked on the tranfactions of the...
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Beispielsammlung zur Theorie und Literatur der Schönen ..., Volume 8, Part 2

Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1795 - 682 pages
...eminence of popularity. A phyfician in a great city, féems ti be the mere play-thing of fortune; hie degree of reputation is , for the moft part , totally...his excellence ; they that reject him, know not his déficience. By an acute obferver , who had looked on the transactions o£ the medical world for half...
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Beispielsammlung zur Theorie und Literatur der Schönen Wissenschaften: Bd ...

Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1795 - 680 pages
...phyfician in a great city, feems ta be the mere play-thing of fortune; his degree or reputation i», for the moft part, totally cafual : they that employ...his excellence ; they that reject him, know not his déficience. By an acute obferver, who tad looked on the transactions of the medical world for half...
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Beispielsammlung zur Theorie und Literatur der Schönen ..., Volume 8, Part 2

Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1795 - 678 pages
...be the mere play-thing of fortune; hi» degree of reputation is, for the inoÉ part, totally cafuab they that employ him, know not his excellence; they that reject him, know not his déficience. By an acute obferver, who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half...
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