The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... seem not to be very clear in your own mind ; many are not sufficiently developed and expanded for the com- mon reader : it ... seems , wished to dispose of her collection , and thought that Mrs. Thrale might purchase and pay for it by an ...
... seem not to be very clear in your own mind ; many are not sufficiently developed and expanded for the com- mon reader : it ... seems , wished to dispose of her collection , and thought that Mrs. Thrale might purchase and pay for it by an ...
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... seems fond of me . " " Lichfield , 20th October , 1781 . " I wrote from Oxford , where I staid two days . On Thursday I went to Birmingham , and was told by Hector that I should not be well so soon as I expected ; but that well I should ...
... seems fond of me . " " Lichfield , 20th October , 1781 . " I wrote from Oxford , where I staid two days . On Thursday I went to Birmingham , and was told by Hector that I should not be well so soon as I expected ; but that well I should ...
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... seems scarcely conceivable how such palpable impositions could have deceived the most ignorant , and yet there were numerous dupes in the critical and literary circles of the day . Mr. W. H. Ireland has since published a full and minute ...
... seems scarcely conceivable how such palpable impositions could have deceived the most ignorant , and yet there were numerous dupes in the critical and literary circles of the day . Mr. W. H. Ireland has since published a full and minute ...
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... seems to make no advances towards us . " Such is my health , which will , I hope , soon grow better . In other respects I have no reason to complain . I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of ...
... seems to make no advances towards us . " Such is my health , which will , I hope , soon grow better . In other respects I have no reason to complain . I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of ...
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... seems to have been written with a troubled mind . " My mind has been for some time much disturbed . The peace of God be with me . 66 I hope to - morrow to finish Lawrence , and to write to Mrs. Aston , and to Lucy . " 19. — I rose late ...
... seems to have been written with a troubled mind . " My mind has been for some time much disturbed . The peace of God be with me . 66 I hope to - morrow to finish Lawrence , and to write to Mrs. Aston , and to Lucy . " 19. — I rose late ...
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