The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1900 |
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... wrote them . I am vexed at being shewn verses in that manner . " MISS REYNOLDS : " But if they should be good , why not give them hearty praise ? JOHNSON : " Why , Madam , because I have not then got the better of my bad humour from ...
... wrote them . I am vexed at being shewn verses in that manner . " MISS REYNOLDS : " But if they should be good , why not give them hearty praise ? JOHNSON : " Why , Madam , because I have not then got the better of my bad humour from ...
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... wrote the above , besides repeated editions in the general collection of his works during the last ten years . Malone . Hannah More says ( Life , i . 39 ) that Cadell , the publisher , told her that 4000 copies were sold in the first ...
... wrote the above , besides repeated editions in the general collection of his works during the last ten years . Malone . Hannah More says ( Life , i . 39 ) that Cadell , the publisher , told her that 4000 copies were sold in the first ...
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... wrote . JOHN- SON : " I recollect but one passage quoted by Thucydides from Homer , which is not to be found in our copies of Homer's works ; I am for the antiquity of Homer , and think that a Grecian colony by being nearer Persia might ...
... wrote . JOHN- SON : " I recollect but one passage quoted by Thucydides from Homer , which is not to be found in our copies of Homer's works ; I am for the antiquity of Homer , and think that a Grecian colony by being nearer Persia might ...
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... wrote this stanza , and some friend struck it out . Boileau wrote some such thing , and Arnaud struck it out , saying , ' Vous gagnerez deux ou trois impies , et perdrez je ne sçais combien des honnĂȘtes gens . ' These fellows want to ...
... wrote this stanza , and some friend struck it out . Boileau wrote some such thing , and Arnaud struck it out , saying , ' Vous gagnerez deux ou trois impies , et perdrez je ne sçais combien des honnĂȘtes gens . ' These fellows want to ...
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... wrote to him on the 25th of May , from Thorpe in Yorkshire , one of the seats of Mr. Bosville , and gave him an account of my having passed a day at Lincoln , unexpectedly , and therefore without having any letters of introduction , but ...
... wrote to him on the 25th of May , from Thorpe in Yorkshire , one of the seats of Mr. Bosville , and gave him an account of my having passed a day at Lincoln , unexpectedly , and therefore without having any letters of introduction , but ...
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