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... printed in Deane Swift's Essay , 1755. Reprinted by Scott , vol . i . p . 500 , and , with cor- rections , apparently authoritative , by Craik , p . 509 . 3 Ed . Singer , p . 161. Johnson's reference must be to the MS . volumes . The ...
... printed in Deane Swift's Essay , 1755. Reprinted by Scott , vol . i . p . 500 , and , with cor- rections , apparently authoritative , by Craik , p . 509 . 3 Ed . Singer , p . 161. Johnson's reference must be to the MS . volumes . The ...
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... printed . His favourite maxim was vive la bagatelle ; he thought trifles a necessary part of life , and perhaps found them necessary to himself . It seems impossible to him to be idle , and his disorders made it difficult or dangerous ...
... printed . His favourite maxim was vive la bagatelle ; he thought trifles a necessary part of life , and perhaps found them necessary to himself . It seems impossible to him to be idle , and his disorders made it difficult or dangerous ...
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... printed soon after his death . These two performances shew a mind incessantly attentive , and , when it was not employed upon great things , busy with minute occurrences . It is apparent that he must have had the habit of noting ...
... printed soon after his death . These two performances shew a mind incessantly attentive , and , when it was not employed upon great things , busy with minute occurrences . It is apparent that he must have had the habit of noting ...
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... printed books ; a species of penmanship in which he retained great excellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hampshire under Taverner , ' a Romish priest ...
... printed books ; a species of penmanship in which he retained great excellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hampshire under Taverner , ' a Romish priest ...
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... printed . 997 66 99 6 He sometimes imitated the English poets , and professed to have written at fourteen his poem upon Silence , ' after Rochester's " Nothing . ' He had now formed his versification , and in the smoothness of his ...
... printed . 997 66 99 6 He sometimes imitated the English poets , and professed to have written at fourteen his poem upon Silence , ' after Rochester's " Nothing . ' He had now formed his versification , and in the smoothness of his ...
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