The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... respect have been fully gratified . Mr. Malone , who has so ably suc- ceeded him as an editor of Shakspeare , has , in his Preface , done great and just honour to Johnson's memory . " TO MRS . LUCY PORTER , IN LICHFIELD . " London , 2d ...
... respect have been fully gratified . Mr. Malone , who has so ably suc- ceeded him as an editor of Shakspeare , has , in his Preface , done great and just honour to Johnson's memory . " TO MRS . LUCY PORTER , IN LICHFIELD . " London , 2d ...
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... respects , more to be pitied than the patient : Johnson was panting under an asthma and dropsy ; but Lawrence had been brought home that very morning struck with the palsy , from which he had , two hours before they came , strove to ...
... respects , more to be pitied than the patient : Johnson was panting under an asthma and dropsy ; but Lawrence had been brought home that very morning struck with the palsy , from which he had , two hours before they came , strove to ...
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... respect or tenderness ; for such another friend , the general course of human things will not suffer man to hope . I passed the summer at Streatham , but there was no Thrale ; and having idled away the summer with a weakly body and ...
... respect or tenderness ; for such another friend , the general course of human things will not suffer man to hope . I passed the summer at Streatham , but there was no Thrale ; and having idled away the summer with a weakly body and ...
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... respects I have no reason to complain . I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets ; and have found the world willing enough to caress me , if my health had invited me to be in much ...
... respects I have no reason to complain . I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets ; and have found the world willing enough to caress me , if my health had invited me to be in much ...
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... respect than it claims , by sitting down to answer it the day on which I received it . " This year has afflicted me with a very irksome and severe disorder . My respiration has been much impeded , and much blood has been taken away . I ...
... respect than it claims , by sitting down to answer it the day on which I received it . " This year has afflicted me with a very irksome and severe disorder . My respiration has been much impeded , and much blood has been taken away . I ...
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