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... wrote , serious or sportive , there was a certain natural grace and decorum , hardly to be expected from a man a great part of whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars , street - walkers and merry - andrews , in those ...
... wrote , serious or sportive , there was a certain natural grace and decorum , hardly to be expected from a man a great part of whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars , street - walkers and merry - andrews , in those ...
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... wrote the Good - natured Man , a piece which had a worse fate than it deserved . Garrick refused to produce it at Drury Lane . It was acted at Covent Garden in 1768 , but was coldly received . The author , however , cleared by his ...
... wrote the Good - natured Man , a piece which had a worse fate than it deserved . Garrick refused to produce it at Drury Lane . It was acted at Covent Garden in 1768 , but was coldly received . The author , however , cleared by his ...
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... wrote with so much perspicuity , vivacity , and grace , should have been , whenever he took a part in conversation , an empty , noisy , blundering rattler . But on this point the evidence is over- whelming . So extraordinary was the ...
... wrote with so much perspicuity , vivacity , and grace , should have been , whenever he took a part in conversation , an empty , noisy , blundering rattler . But on this point the evidence is over- whelming . So extraordinary was the ...
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... wrote , they had that time ; and therefore his readers pronounced him a man of genius ; but when he talked , he talked nonsense , and made himself the laughing - stock of his hearers . He was painfully sensible of his inferiority in ...
... wrote , they had that time ; and therefore his readers pronounced him a man of genius ; but when he talked , he talked nonsense , and made himself the laughing - stock of his hearers . He was painfully sensible of his inferiority in ...
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... wrote the inscription . It is much to be lamented that Johnson did not leave to posterity a more durable and a more valuable memorial of his friend . A life of Goldsmith would have been an inestimable addition to the Lives of the Poets ...
... wrote the inscription . It is much to be lamented that Johnson did not leave to posterity a more durable and a more valuable memorial of his friend . A life of Goldsmith would have been an inestimable addition to the Lives of the Poets ...
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