The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J. M. Dent & Company, 1931 |
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... English rather than in Loun . A Wo think that the Memory of se eminent an English Writer ought to be perpetuated in the language , to which his Works are likely to be so lasting an Ornament , Whichuave , also know to have been the ...
... English rather than in Loun . A Wo think that the Memory of se eminent an English Writer ought to be perpetuated in the language , to which his Works are likely to be so lasting an Ornament , Whichuave , also know to have been the ...
Page 171
... English in it . " JOHNSON . " It may have been radically Teutonick ; but English and High Dutch have no similarity to the eye , though radically the same . Once when looking into Low Dutch , I found , in a whole page , only one word ...
... English in it . " JOHNSON . " It may have been radically Teutonick ; but English and High Dutch have no similarity to the eye , though radically the same . Once when looking into Low Dutch , I found , in a whole page , only one word ...
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... English Ballads , 572 A Book of Heroic Verse , 574 A Book of Nonsense , by Edward Lear , and Others , 806 A Century of Essays . An Anthology , 653 American Short Stories of the Nine- teenth Century , 840 A New Book of Sense and Nonsense ...
... English Ballads , 572 A Book of Heroic Verse , 574 A Book of Nonsense , by Edward Lear , and Others , 806 A Century of Essays . An Anthology , 653 American Short Stories of the Nine- teenth Century , 840 A New Book of Sense and Nonsense ...
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