The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 |
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... sure I am right , and there's an end on't . " I said to him that it was certainly true , as my friend Dempster had observed in his letter to me upon the subject , that a great part of what was in his " Journey to the Western Islands of ...
... sure I am right , and there's an end on't . " I said to him that it was certainly true , as my friend Dempster had observed in his letter to me upon the subject , that a great part of what was in his " Journey to the Western Islands of ...
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... sure , Sir , 1 Johnson said to me afterwards , " Sir , they respected me for my literature ; and yet it was not great but by comparison . Sir , it is amazing how little literature there is in the world . " - ETAT . 68 . OLIVER EDWARDS ...
... sure , Sir , 1 Johnson said to me afterwards , " Sir , they respected me for my literature ; and yet it was not great but by comparison . Sir , it is amazing how little literature there is in the world . " - ETAT . 68 . OLIVER EDWARDS ...
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... sure but that this was my own suggestion , though it is truly in the character of Edwards . 2 This must have been the Rev. James Phipps , who had been a scholar of Pembroke , and who , in 1773 , left his estates to the college to ...
... sure but that this was my own suggestion , though it is truly in the character of Edwards . 2 This must have been the Rev. James Phipps , who had been a scholar of Pembroke , and who , in 1773 , left his estates to the college to ...
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... sure , it should not be . But who is without it ? " BOSWELL . " Yourself , Sir . " JOHNSON . " Why , I play no tricks : I lay no traps . " BosWELL . " No , Sir . You are six feet high , and you only do not stoop . " We talked of the ...
... sure , it should not be . But who is without it ? " BOSWELL . " Yourself , Sir . " JOHNSON . " Why , I play no tricks : I lay no traps . " BosWELL . " No , Sir . You are six feet high , and you only do not stoop . " We talked of the ...
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... sure , till we had a positive revelation . " I told him , that his " Rasselas " had often made me unhappy ; for it represented the misery of human life so well , and so convincingly to a thinking mind , that if at any time the ...
... sure , till we had a positive revelation . " I told him , that his " Rasselas " had often made me unhappy ; for it represented the misery of human life so well , and so convincingly to a thinking mind , that if at any time the ...
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