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... March this year , and the last 17th of March , 1752 , the day on which Mrs. Johnson died * ; acknowl . Letter in the General Advertiser to excite the attention of the publick to the performance of Comus , which was next day to be acted ...
... March this year , and the last 17th of March , 1752 , the day on which Mrs. Johnson died * ; acknowl . Letter in the General Advertiser to excite the attention of the publick to the performance of Comus , which was next day to be acted ...
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... march through life , was not assumed from vanity and ostentation , but was the natural and constant effect of those extraordinary powers of mind , of which he could not but be conscious by comparison ; the intellectual difference ...
... march through life , was not assumed from vanity and ostentation , but was the natural and constant effect of those extraordinary powers of mind , of which he could not but be conscious by comparison ; the intellectual difference ...
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... March , 1776 . kIt ought to be remembered , that Dr. Johnson was apt , in his literary as well as moral exercises , to overcharge his defects . Dr. Adams informed me , that he attended his tutor's lectures , and also the lectures in the ...
... March , 1776 . kIt ought to be remembered , that Dr. Johnson was apt , in his literary as well as moral exercises , to overcharge his defects . Dr. Adams informed me , that he attended his tutor's lectures , and also the lectures in the ...
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... march through this world to a better , his mind still appeared grand and bril- liant , and impressed all around him with the truth of Vir- gil's noble sentiment- Igneus est ollis vigor et cœlestis origo . The history of his mind as to ...
... march through this world to a better , his mind still appeared grand and bril- liant , and impressed all around him with the truth of Vir- gil's noble sentiment- Igneus est ollis vigor et cœlestis origo . The history of his mind as to ...
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... March 2 , 1737 . " DEAR SIR , -I had the favour of yours , and am ex- tremely obliged to you ; but I cannot say I had a greater affection for you upon it than I had before , being long since so much endeared to you , as well by an early ...
... March 2 , 1737 . " DEAR SIR , -I had the favour of yours , and am ex- tremely obliged to you ; but I cannot say I had a greater affection for you upon it than I had before , being long since so much endeared to you , as well by an early ...
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