'[But he was our first great example] He was, however, one of our earliest examples of correctness.
And [overlook] despise their masters.
His instructions were such as the [state] character of his [own time] readers made [necessary] proper.
His purpose was to [diffuse] infuse literary curiosity by gentle and unsuspected conveyance [among] into the gay, the idle, and the wealthy.
Framed rather for those that [wish] are learning to write.
Domestick [manners] scenes.'
In his Life of PARNELL, I wonder that Johnson omitted to insert an Epitaph which he had long before composed for that amiable man, without ever writing it down, but which he was so good as, at my request, to dictate to me, by which means it has been preserved.
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'Hic requiescit THOMAS PARNELL, S.T.P. Qui sacerdos pariter et poeta, Utrasque partes ita implevit, Ut neque sacerdoti suavitas poetae, Neo poetae sacerdotis sanctitas[189], deesset.' Various Readings in the Life of PARNELL. |
'About three years [after] afterwards.
[Did not much want] was in no great need of improvement.