The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1903 |
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Page 30
... admired , but now much less . " This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct , and the train of his thoughts ; and , because he has been suspected of in ...
... admired , but now much less . " This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct , and the train of his thoughts ; and , because he has been suspected of in ...
Page 40
... admiration , a little praise of his antagonist would be sufficiently offensive , and might incline him to leave Sweden , from which , however , he was dismissed , not with any mark of contempt , but with a train of attendance scarcely ...
... admiration , a little praise of his antagonist would be sufficiently offensive , and might incline him to leave Sweden , from which , however , he was dismissed , not with any mark of contempt , but with a train of attendance scarcely ...
Page 68
... admired . The sale , if it be considered , will justify the pub- lick . Those who have no power to judge of past times , but by their own , should always doubt their conclusions . The call for books was not in Milton's age what it is in ...
... admired . The sale , if it be considered , will justify the pub- lick . Those who have no power to judge of past times , but by their own , should always doubt their conclusions . The call for books was not in Milton's age what it is in ...
Page 84
... admire the beauties of this great poet sometimes force their own judgment into false ap- probation of his little pieces , and prevail upon them- selves to think that admirable which is only singular . All that short compositions can ...
... admire the beauties of this great poet sometimes force their own judgment into false ap- probation of his little pieces , and prevail upon them- selves to think that admirable which is only singular . All that short compositions can ...
Page 90
... admiration with which the votaries have received it . As a drama it is deficient . The action is not prob- able . A mask , in those parts where supernatural in- tervention is admitted , must , indeed , be given up to all the freaks of ...
... admiration with which the votaries have received it . As a drama it is deficient . The action is not prob- able . A mask , in those parts where supernatural in- tervention is admitted , must , indeed , be given up to all the freaks of ...
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