The North American Review, Volume 64Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1847 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... on the stern and melancholy Johnson , apparently not aware that he is file- leader to the eloquent Adam Smith , who was so distasteful - to him when living , that it would not 1847. ] 59 Brougham's Lives of Men of Letters .
... on the stern and melancholy Johnson , apparently not aware that he is file- leader to the eloquent Adam Smith , who was so distasteful - to him when living , that it would not 1847. ] 59 Brougham's Lives of Men of Letters .
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... Johnson's opposition to it must have arisen from an at- tachment to her on his own part . Now , if this was so , all the world must have been smitten with her charms , for there was a perfect unanimity of opinion as to the course which ...
... Johnson's opposition to it must have arisen from an at- tachment to her on his own part . Now , if this was so , all the world must have been smitten with her charms , for there was a perfect unanimity of opinion as to the course which ...
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... Johnson's constitution ; it brought with it a sense of ever - present misery , and oppress- ed him with dark forebodings ; he evidently feared the time when the intellect would sink under it , leaving him a miserable ruin . Had physical ...
... Johnson's constitution ; it brought with it a sense of ever - present misery , and oppress- ed him with dark forebodings ; he evidently feared the time when the intellect would sink under it , leaving him a miserable ruin . Had physical ...
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... Johnson to exercise equal generosity , the voices of condemnation would be few and small . While Lord Brougham , as it seems to us , hardly does jus- tice to the great moralist , presenting a view of him which is deficient in harmony ...
... Johnson to exercise equal generosity , the voices of condemnation would be few and small . While Lord Brougham , as it seems to us , hardly does jus- tice to the great moralist , presenting a view of him which is deficient in harmony ...
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... Johnson's literary merits ; and what he says of the style of the great moralist is altogether discrimi- nating and true . To Johnson's poetry he assigns a rank perhaps too high , if it be regarded as poetry ; but when we regard it as ...
... Johnson's literary merits ; and what he says of the style of the great moralist is altogether discrimi- nating and true . To Johnson's poetry he assigns a rank perhaps too high , if it be regarded as poetry ; but when we regard it as ...
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