The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... Rasselas , " took their source from its author's keen recollections of the time passed in his early years . Their father Michael died of an inflammatory fever , at the age of seventy - six , as Mr. Johnson told me : their mother at ...
... Rasselas , " took their source from its author's keen recollections of the time passed in his early years . Their father Michael died of an inflammatory fever , at the age of seventy - six , as Mr. Johnson told me : their mother at ...
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... Rasselas , " is really written from the fulness of his heart , and quite in his best manner I think . I am not so sure that this is the proper place to mention his writing that surprising little volume in a week or ten days time , 1 in ...
... Rasselas , " is really written from the fulness of his heart , and quite in his best manner I think . I am not so sure that this is the proper place to mention his writing that surprising little volume in a week or ten days time , 1 in ...
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... Rasselas , " he spoke , and attention watched his lips ; he reasoned , and conviction closed his periods if poetry was talked of , his quotations were the readiest ; and had he not been eminent for more solid and brilliant qualities ...
... Rasselas , " he spoke , and attention watched his lips ; he reasoned , and conviction closed his periods if poetry was talked of , his quotations were the readiest ; and had he not been eminent for more solid and brilliant qualities ...
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... Rasselas ' was a lamp of wisdom . " He there displays an uncommon capacity for remark , and makes the best use of the description of travellers . It is an excellent romance . But his journey into the Western Islands is an original thing ...
... Rasselas ' was a lamp of wisdom . " He there displays an uncommon capacity for remark , and makes the best use of the description of travellers . It is an excellent romance . But his journey into the Western Islands is an original thing ...
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... Rasselas . " It was the fault of fortune that he did not animadvert on every thing at home and abroad . He had been upon the salt - water , and observed something of a sea- life of the uniformity of the scene , and of the sickness and ...
... Rasselas . " It was the fault of fortune that he did not animadvert on every thing at home and abroad . He had been upon the salt - water , and observed something of a sea- life of the uniformity of the scene , and of the sickness and ...
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