Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder: Selections from the Spectator [no.584-631]; also "Critique on Milton's Paradise lost, paper I-XVIII" from no. 267-369] Selections from the Guardian. Selections from the FreeholderJ. Johnson, 1804 |
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... means he had all the opportunities he could wish for of opening his mind to her , he succeeded so well , that upon her departure she made him a kind of promise , and gave him her word to return him a po- sitive answer in less than fifty ...
... means he had all the opportunities he could wish for of opening his mind to her , he succeeded so well , that upon her departure she made him a kind of promise , and gave him her word to return him a po- sitive answer in less than fifty ...
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... means I enjoy a double morning , and rise twice a day fresh to my Speculations . It happens very luckily for me , that some of my dreams have proved instructive to my countrymen , so that I may be said to sleep , as well as to wake ...
... means I enjoy a double morning , and rise twice a day fresh to my Speculations . It happens very luckily for me , that some of my dreams have proved instructive to my countrymen , so that I may be said to sleep , as well as to wake ...
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... mean time the said bailiff shall take with him twain of the freeholders of the lordship of Whichenovre , and they three shall go to the manor of Rudlow , belonging to Robert Knightleye , and there shall summon the aforesaid Knightleye ...
... mean time the said bailiff shall take with him twain of the freeholders of the lordship of Whichenovre , and they three shall go to the manor of Rudlow , belonging to Robert Knightleye , and there shall summon the aforesaid Knightleye ...
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... mean that it should be great in its nature , but also in its duration ; or , in other words , that it should have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatness . The just measure of this kind of mag- nitude he explains ...
... mean that it should be great in its nature , but also in its duration ; or , in other words , that it should have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatness . The just measure of this kind of mag- nitude he explains ...
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... means he has wrought into the body of his fable a very beautiful and well - invented allegory . But notwithstanding the fineness of this allegory may atone for it in some measure , I cannot think that per- sons of such a chimerical ...
... means he has wrought into the body of his fable a very beautiful and well - invented allegory . But notwithstanding the fineness of this allegory may atone for it in some measure , I cannot think that per- sons of such a chimerical ...
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