The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... conversation , which I have preserved , are these I told him that Voltaire , in a conversation with me , had distinguished Pope and Dryden thus : - " Pope drives a handsome chariot , with a couple of neat trim nags ; Dryden a coach ...
... conversation , which I have preserved , are these I told him that Voltaire , in a conversation with me , had distinguished Pope and Dryden thus : - " Pope drives a handsome chariot , with a couple of neat trim nags ; Dryden a coach ...
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... conversation with him ; and it was certainly submitted to his friendly revision : but in the year 1783 , he at my request marked with a pencil the lines which he had furnished , which are only line 420 , To stop too fearful , and too ...
... conversation with him ; and it was certainly submitted to his friendly revision : but in the year 1783 , he at my request marked with a pencil the lines which he had furnished , which are only line 420 , To stop too fearful , and too ...
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... conversation of the great Dr. Samuel Johnson are , I think , to be prized ; as exhibiting the little varieties of a mind so enlarged and so powerful when objects of consequence required its ex- · ertions , and as giving us a minute ...
... conversation of the great Dr. Samuel Johnson are , I think , to be prized ; as exhibiting the little varieties of a mind so enlarged and so powerful when objects of consequence required its ex- · ertions , and as giving us a minute ...
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... of Johnson's early friend , Henry Hervey . He married , in 1744 , Anne , daughter of Francis Coughlan , esq . and died Jan. 20 , 1775. - MALONE . was his being honoured by a private conversation with his 30 [ 1767 . THE LIFE OF.
... of Johnson's early friend , Henry Hervey . He married , in 1744 , Anne , daughter of Francis Coughlan , esq . and died Jan. 20 , 1775. - MALONE . was his being honoured by a private conversation with his 30 [ 1767 . THE LIFE OF.
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... conversation I have been at great pains to collect , with the utmost authenticity , from Dr. Johnson's own detail to myself ; from Mr. Langton , who was present when he gave an account of it to Dr. Joseph Warton and several other ...
... conversation I have been at great pains to collect , with the utmost authenticity , from Dr. Johnson's own detail to myself ; from Mr. Langton , who was present when he gave an account of it to Dr. Joseph Warton and several other ...
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