| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...and to mend them was his laftk From his attention to poetry he was never diverted: If converfation offered any thing that could be improved, he committed it to paper ; if a thought, or perhaps an expreffion more happy than was common, rofe to his mind, he was careful to write it ; an independent... | |
| samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...and to mend them was his laft. From his attention to poetry he was never diverted. If converfation offered any thing that could be improved, he committed it to paper ; if a thought, or perhaps an expreffion more happy than was common, rofe to his mind, he was careful to write it ; an independent... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 418 pages
...was his luft. From his attention to poetry he was never diverted. If converfation offered POPE. -259 any thing that could be improved, he committed it to paper ; if a thought, or perhaps an expreffion more happy than was common, rofe to his mind, he was careful to write it ; an independent... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...and to mend them was his laft. From his attention to poetry he was never diverted. ^''If converfation offered any thing that could be improved, he committed it to paper; if a thought, or perhaps an exprefilon more happy than was common, role to his mind, he was careful to write it; an independent... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...and to mend them was his laft. From his attention to poetry he was never diverted. If ccnverfation offered any thing that could be improved, he committed it to paper; if a thought, or perhaps an expreflion more happy than was common, rofe to his mind, he was careful to write it; an independent... | |
| 1793 - 738 pages
...and to mend them was his lait. " From his attention to poetry he was never diverted. If converlation offered any thing that could be improved, he committed it to paper; if a thought, or perhaps an expreffion more happy than was common role to his mind, he was careful to write it ; an independent... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...when excellence could be attained. He considered poetry as the business of his life; and, however lie might seem to lament his occupation, he followed it...his last. From his attention to poetry he w"as never diveited. If conversation offered any thing that could'be improved, he committed it to paper; if a... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...compositions to his friends, and was never content with mediocrity when excellence could be attained. He considered poetry as the business of his life;...his last. From his attention to poetry he was never diveited. If conversation offered any thing that could he improved, he committed it to paper ; if a... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1807 - 606 pages
...change his expreiTions : ' From ' his attention to poetry he was never di* verted. If converfation offered any thing ' that could be improved, he committed it ' to paper. If a thought, or perhaps an ex' preflion more happy than was common, ' role to his mind, he was careful to write * it ; an independant... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...compositions to his friends, and was never content with mediocrity, when excellence could be attained. He considered poetry as the business of his life ;...From his attention to poetry he was never diverted. Jf conversation offered any thing that could be improved, he committed it to paper ; if a thought,... | |
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