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" What would you have me retract? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable,... "
Lives of Scottish Poets - Page 142
by Joseph Robertson - 1822 - 378 pages
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1852
...I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. " What would you have me retract? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. For this...I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable j and what 1 hear of your morals inelines me to...
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Selections from the Works of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. What would you have me retract? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. For this...opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which 5 I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable;...
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Dr. Johnson

John Dennis - 1910 - 126 pages
...what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian. What would you have me retract? 1 thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still. For...I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities since your Homer are not so formidable ; and what I hear of your morals inclines me to pay...
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1785-1824

Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...shall do for me. For this opinion I have given my reasons to I will not desist from detecting what I line too labors, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camil abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable; and what I hear of your morals inclines me to pay...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. What would you have me retract? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. For this...I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable, and what I hear of your morals inclines me to pay...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. What would you have me retract? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. For this...I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable, and what I hear of your morals inclines me to pay...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. What would you have me retract? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. For this...I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable, and what I hear of your morals inclines me to pay...
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Selected English Letters

Claude Moore Fuess - American letters - 1914 - 136 pages
...think to be a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. What would you have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. For this...I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable ; and what I hear of your morals inclines me to...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...you have me retract? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. For this fro opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which...I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable; and what I hear of your morals inclines me to pay...
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Readings in English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 pages
...I think a cheat, by the 5 menaces of a ruffian. What would you have me retract? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still. For...I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since youri0 Homer, are not so formidable; and what I hear of your morals inclines me to...
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