 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca; but I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...refinement. ' I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1816 - 250 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the. mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...refinement. "' I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 462 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
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I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. 
