The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... more description , more sen- timent , more of nature , and more of art . Some of the most excellent parts of Theocritus are , where Castor and VOL . IV . B Pollux , going with the other Argonauts , land on THE LIFE ...
... more description , more sen- timent , more of nature , and more of art . Some of the most excellent parts of Theocritus are , where Castor and VOL . IV . B Pollux , going with the other Argonauts , land on THE LIFE ...
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... nature , what Giannone said to a monk who wanted what he called to convert him : Tu sei santo , ma tu non sei filosofo .'- It is an unhappy circumstance , that one might give away five hundred pounds in a year to those that importune in ...
... nature , what Giannone said to a monk who wanted what he called to convert him : Tu sei santo , ma tu non sei filosofo .'- It is an unhappy circumstance , that one might give away five hundred pounds in a year to those that importune in ...
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... natural course of life . The machinery of the pagans is uninteresting to us : when a goddess appears in Homer or Virgil , we grow weary ; still more so in the Grecian tragedies , as in that kind of composition a nearer approach to nature ...
... natural course of life . The machinery of the pagans is uninteresting to us : when a goddess appears in Homer or Virgil , we grow weary ; still more so in the Grecian tragedies , as in that kind of composition a nearer approach to nature ...
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... nature's treasures would explore , Her mysteries and arcana know , Must high as lofty Newton soar , Must stoop as delving Woodward low . Who studies ancient laws and rites , Tongues , arts , and arms , and history , Must drudge , like ...
... nature's treasures would explore , Her mysteries and arcana know , Must high as lofty Newton soar , Must stoop as delving Woodward low . Who studies ancient laws and rites , Tongues , arts , and arms , and history , Must drudge , like ...
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... natures can reduce these into a point . They do not , indeed , suppress them ; but they suspend , or they lock them up in the breast . " The learned society , under whose sanction such gabble is ushered into the world , would do well to ...
... natures can reduce these into a point . They do not , indeed , suppress them ; but they suspend , or they lock them up in the breast . " The learned society , under whose sanction such gabble is ushered into the world , would do well to ...
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