 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 pages
...not perufed . with more fluggifh frigidity. The compofitions are fuch as. might have been written tor penance by a hermit, o'r for hire by a philofophical...without thinking on a woman but as the fubject for a talk, we fometimes efteem as learned, and fometimes defpife as trifling, always admire as ingenious,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perufed with more fluggifh frigidity. The compofitions are fuch as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire...mind only on the writer, whom, without thinking on a womm but as the fubje& for a talk,, we fometknes efteem as learned, and fometimes defpife as trifling,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 478 pages
...compofvtions are fuch as might have been written for pctjance by a hermit, or for hire by a ghUolbphical rhymer who had only heard of another fex ; for they...without thinking on a woman but as the fubject for his talk, we fometimes .efteem as iearned, and fometimes defpife as trifling, always admire as ingenious,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perufed with. more fluggifh frigidity. The competitions are fuch as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire...without thinking on a woman but as the fubject for his tafk, we fometimes efteem as learned, and fometimes defpife as trifling, always admire as ingenious,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...fluggifh frigidity. The compofitions are fuch as might have been written for penance by a hermit, of for hire by a philofophical rhymer who had only heard...writer, whom, without thinking on a woman but as the <ubj«& for his tafk, we fometimes efteem as learned, and ibmetimes defpife as trifling, always admire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 508 pages
...is not perufed with more fluggim frigidity. The compofi• f. * *'„ tions are fuch as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a % • fophical rhvmer who.had only heard of ano* Jtr*- -Jb . . A ther fex ; for they turn the mind... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perufed with more fluggifh frigidity, The compofitions are fuch as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire...philofophical rhymer who had only heard of another lex; for they turn the mind only on the writer, whom, without thinking on a woman but as the fubject... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perufed with more fluggifh frigidity. The compofitions are fuch as might have been written for penance by 'a hermit, or for hire...without thinking on a woman but as the fubject for his tafk, we fometimes eiteern as learned, and fometimes defpife as triffing, always admire as ingenious,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perused with more sluggish frigidity. The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they turn the mind only on the writer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perufed with more fluggifh frigidity. The compofitions arc fuch as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire...without thinking on a woman but as the fubject for his tafk, we fometimes efteem as learned, and fometimes defpife as trifling, always admire as ingenious,... | |
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The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex... 
