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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 91
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The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppreffed his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with...But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence,...
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Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppreffed his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with...But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exaci, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence,...
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The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 418 pages
...and variety of knowledge, which yet had not opprefled his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with...and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reaibncr, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exsd:, and his purfuits...
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prefaces biographical and crirical to the works of the english poets

samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...and variety of knowledge, which yet had not opprefled his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with...and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoncr, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his purfuits...
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THE MONTHLY REVIEW OR LITERARY JOURNAL

Several Hands - 1781 - 588 pages
...which yet had not oppirfled bis im.igination, nnr clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he biougnt a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once excntd the powers of the fcholar, rhe rcafoner, and the .vit But his knowledge was too multifaiiouĀ«...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 504 pages
...imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and...But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exaft, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence,...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ...

1784 - 778 pages
...imagination, npr clouded his pcrfpicacity. To " every work he brought a rneniory full trauglu, together " with a fancy fertile of original combinations ; and...his knowledge was too multifarious to be ,," always exaft, and his purfuits were too eager to be aU " ways pautious. His abilities gave him an haughty...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and...But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 pages
...imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and...But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence,...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original com- / binations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the...But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence,...
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