The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... anecdotes , injudicious as some of them may be confessed to be , Johnson's fame alone is sullied , while the interests of religion and virtue are never compromised to preserve the smartness of repar- tee , or the caustick severity of ...
... anecdotes , injudicious as some of them may be confessed to be , Johnson's fame alone is sullied , while the interests of religion and virtue are never compromised to preserve the smartness of repar- tee , or the caustick severity of ...
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... anecdotes , and many important corrections , in this edition . After his decease many letters , poems , translations , and minor essays appeared in the St. James's Chroni- cle , and other publications of the day , purporting to be from ...
... anecdotes , and many important corrections , in this edition . After his decease many letters , poems , translations , and minor essays appeared in the St. James's Chroni- cle , and other publications of the day , purporting to be from ...
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... anecdote of Rich- ardson . One day at his country house at Northend , where a large company was assembled at dinner , a gentleman who was just returned from Paris , willing to please Mr. Richardson , mentioned to him a very flattering ...
... anecdote of Rich- ardson . One day at his country house at Northend , where a large company was assembled at dinner , a gentleman who was just returned from Paris , willing to please Mr. Richardson , mentioned to him a very flattering ...
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... anecdote : Green and Guthrie , an Irishman and a Scotch- man , undertook a translation of Duhalde's History of China . Green said of Guthrie , that he knew no English ; and Guthrie of Green , that he knew no French : and these two ...
... anecdote : Green and Guthrie , an Irishman and a Scotch- man , undertook a translation of Duhalde's History of China . Green said of Guthrie , that he knew no English ; and Guthrie of Green , that he knew no French : and these two ...
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... anecdote on the above negociation . " In the case of the Lives of the Poets , which drew forth the encomium of Johnson , the bargain was for two hundred guineas , and the booksellers spontaneously added a third hundred . On this ...
... anecdote on the above negociation . " In the case of the Lives of the Poets , which drew forth the encomium of Johnson , the bargain was for two hundred guineas , and the booksellers spontaneously added a third hundred . On this ...
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