The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... slight blemishes which marked the literary colossus . Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I gave in my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , of my being able to preserve his conversation in an authen- vi DEDICATION .
... slight blemishes which marked the literary colossus . Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I gave in my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , of my being able to preserve his conversation in an authen- vi DEDICATION .
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... gave him an opportunity of taking possession of such fragments of a diary and other papers as were left ;. b The greatest part of this book was written while sir John Hawkins was alive ; and I avow , that one object of my strictures was ...
... gave him an opportunity of taking possession of such fragments of a diary and other papers as were left ;. b The greatest part of this book was written while sir John Hawkins was alive ; and I avow , that one object of my strictures was ...
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... gave the first impression of that more exten- sive reading in which he had indulged himself . His tutor , Mr. Jorden , fellow of Pembroke , was not , it seems , a man of such abilities as we should conceive re- quisite for the ...
... gave the first impression of that more exten- sive reading in which he had indulged himself . His tutor , Mr. Jorden , fellow of Pembroke , was not , it seems , a man of such abilities as we should conceive re- quisite for the ...
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... gave them to Lucy in the presence of my mother , to whom he showed them on the instant . She used to repeat them to me , when I asked her for the verses Dr. Johnson gave her on a sprig of myrtle , which he had stolen or begged from her ...
... gave them to Lucy in the presence of my mother , to whom he showed them on the instant . She used to repeat them to me , when I asked her for the verses Dr. Johnson gave her on a sprig of myrtle , which he had stolen or begged from her ...
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... gave him a let- ter of introduction to Lintot his bookseller , and that John- son wrote some things for him ; but I ... gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served , nay , better than the rest , for they gave the ...
... gave him a let- ter of introduction to Lintot his bookseller , and that John- son wrote some things for him ; but I ... gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served , nay , better than the rest , for they gave the ...
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