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... less profitable than it is now ; for though it may be said , that during the reign of Queen Anne , multitudes of controverfial books and pamphlets were publishing , yet these yield- ed but small advantage to the mere venders of them ...
... less profitable than it is now ; for though it may be said , that during the reign of Queen Anne , multitudes of controverfial books and pamphlets were publishing , yet these yield- ed but small advantage to the mere venders of them ...
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... less than certain , that his own indigence , and the inability of his father to help him , called Johnson from the university sooner than he meant to quit it : his father , either during his continuance there , or possibly before , had ...
... less than certain , that his own indigence , and the inability of his father to help him , called Johnson from the university sooner than he meant to quit it : his father , either during his continuance there , or possibly before , had ...
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... less sensible than your readers , ' of the defect of your poetical article , you will not be displeased , if , in order to the improvement of it , I ' communicate to you the fentiments of a person , who ' will undertake , on reasonable ...
... less sensible than your readers , ' of the defect of your poetical article , you will not be displeased , if , in order to the improvement of it , I ' communicate to you the fentiments of a person , who ' will undertake , on reasonable ...
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... less tale , that , on their joint note , he advanced them all that their modesty would permit them to afk , ( five pounds ) , which was , foon after , punctually re- paid . It It has been before related , that Johnson had en- DR ...
... less tale , that , on their joint note , he advanced them all that their modesty would permit them to afk , ( five pounds ) , which was , foon after , punctually re- paid . It It has been before related , that Johnson had en- DR ...
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John Hawkins. : particular , when all the money they could both raise was less than fufficient to purchase for them the shelter and fordid comforts of a night cellar . Of the result of their conversations little can now be known , save ...
John Hawkins. : particular , when all the money they could both raise was less than fufficient to purchase for them the shelter and fordid comforts of a night cellar . Of the result of their conversations little can now be known , save ...
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Page 544 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Page 482 - I was born in the eighth climate, but seem to be framed and constellated unto all. I am no plant that will not prosper out of a garden. All places, all airs, make unto me one country ; I am in England everywhere, and under any meridian.
Page 198 - For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die...
Page 289 - I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers...
Page 360 - I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
Page 342 - Have put their whole drama and epick to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French *, and will beat forty more...
Page 62 - ... but, unfortunately, he is not capable of receiving their bounty, which would make him happy for life...
Page 126 - Excursions of fancy, and flights of oratory, are indeed, pardonable in young men, but in no other; and it would surely contribute more, even to the purpose for which some gentlemen appear to speak, (that of depreciating the conduct of the...
Page 347 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 490 - That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects, within the realm of England.