Wit and Wisdom of Samuel JohnsonClarendon Press, 1888 - 323 pages |
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... imagination , that it is insensible to the arts of the musician and the painter , and is little open to the beauties of nature , cannot be denied . To him who , nursed in the modern school of thought , reproaches Johnson for the ...
... imagination , that it is insensible to the arts of the musician and the painter , and is little open to the beauties of nature , cannot be denied . To him who , nursed in the modern school of thought , reproaches Johnson for the ...
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... imagination : let it then be eam may not operate in the place that owes nothing to forefathers , easure from the consciousness of hether he may not , with a little e honourable to found than to to gain dignity than transmit it ; o ...
... imagination : let it then be eam may not operate in the place that owes nothing to forefathers , easure from the consciousness of hether he may not , with a little e honourable to found than to to gain dignity than transmit it ; o ...
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... It is observed th w not whether it has many books . elie unexamine forgotten , comp us again what w are us what our WHAT is good ced good till it To works of wh definite , but gradua mend . Works of imagination nd delight ; by their.
... It is observed th w not whether it has many books . elie unexamine forgotten , comp us again what w are us what our WHAT is good ced good till it To works of wh definite , but gradua mend . Works of imagination nd delight ; by their.
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Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill. mend . Works of imagination nd delight ; by their power of attention . That book is good rows away . He only is the din pleasing captivity ; whose gerness , and in hope of new and whose ...
Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill. mend . Works of imagination nd delight ; by their power of attention . That book is good rows away . He only is the din pleasing captivity ; whose gerness , and in hope of new and whose ...
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... imagination , or the glittering mind that may please and dazzle ce no real or lasting advantage . ves upon a perpetual scepticism , ut their own senses , upon calling cannot possibly be obtained , and ut against it when it is laid ...
... imagination , or the glittering mind that may please and dazzle ce no real or lasting advantage . ves upon a perpetual scepticism , ut their own senses , upon calling cannot possibly be obtained , and ut against it when it is laid ...
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