 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...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, whom, without thinking on a woman but as the subject for his task, we sometimes esteem as learned, and sometimes despise as trifling, always admire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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 - 1826 - 430 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 - 1837 - 752 pages
...colours of flowers, is not perused with more sluggish frigidity. The compositions arc such as might have tered by the protection of Cowley. philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they turn the mind only on the writer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 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 tarn the mind only on the writer,... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 322 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,... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 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 - 1854 - 346 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 - 1854 - 468 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,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...them. Johnson's characteristic judgment is hardly too severe : '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.' It is as though in the course of a hundred... | |
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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... 
