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... language , modulated into sonorous periods ( pp . 148-49 ) . A long footnote from Percy , reprinted by Hill , corro- borates this conjecture , which is undoubtedly correct.23 This is only one of a good number of examples illustrat- ing ...
... language , modulated into sonorous periods ( pp . 148-49 ) . A long footnote from Percy , reprinted by Hill , corro- borates this conjecture , which is undoubtedly correct.23 This is only one of a good number of examples illustrat- ing ...
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... Language ( 1747 ) , but not of the whole work . Johnson was by now no longer eager to have a patron for a project which he had completed with assistance only from the booksellers , so he rejected Chesterfield's advances . It is ...
... Language ( 1747 ) , but not of the whole work . Johnson was by now no longer eager to have a patron for a project which he had completed with assistance only from the booksellers , so he rejected Chesterfield's advances . It is ...
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