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Page xv
... nature hung over him all the rest of his life , like the sword of the tyrant suspended over his guest . In his sixtieth year he had a mind to write the history of his melan- choly ; but he desisted , not knowing , whether it would not ...
... nature hung over him all the rest of his life , like the sword of the tyrant suspended over his guest . In his sixtieth year he had a mind to write the history of his melan- choly ; but he desisted , not knowing , whether it would not ...
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... nature ; " the ease with which this passage head of those who cultivated a clear and natural rises to unaffected grandeur , is the secret charm style . Dryden , Tillotson , and Sir William that captivates the reader . Johnson is always ...
... nature ; " the ease with which this passage head of those who cultivated a clear and natural rises to unaffected grandeur , is the secret charm style . Dryden , Tillotson , and Sir William that captivates the reader . Johnson is always ...
Page xxx
... nature . As Sancho says in Don Quixote , they wanted better bread than is made with wheat . They took pains to be- wilder themselves , and were ingenious for no other purpose than to err . In Johnson's review of Cowley's works , false ...
... nature . As Sancho says in Don Quixote , they wanted better bread than is made with wheat . They took pains to be- wilder themselves , and were ingenious for no other purpose than to err . In Johnson's review of Cowley's works , false ...
Page xxxv
... nature and of art . He reaches the sublime without any apparent effort . When he tells us , " If we consider the fixed stars as so many oceans of flame , that are each of them attended with a different set of planets ; if we still ...
... nature and of art . He reaches the sublime without any apparent effort . When he tells us , " If we consider the fixed stars as so many oceans of flame , that are each of them attended with a different set of planets ; if we still ...
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... nature that of Camden - professor of history at Oxford , vacant afford pleasure in description , or has derived from by the resignation of the present Sir W. Scott , the regions of fiction more animated and pictu- was conferred upon him ...
... nature that of Camden - professor of history at Oxford , vacant afford pleasure in description , or has derived from by the resignation of the present Sir W. Scott , the regions of fiction more animated and pictu- was conferred upon him ...
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