The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... John- son sometimes delighted to puzzle his unsuspect- ing friend . But from those loose conversations , many a hint of Johnson's has been expanded into copious argument by subsequent writers ; and the truth of many an observation ...
... John- son sometimes delighted to puzzle his unsuspect- ing friend . But from those loose conversations , many a hint of Johnson's has been expanded into copious argument by subsequent writers ; and the truth of many an observation ...
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... John- son's works , we have left no portion of the origi- nal narrative unsifted ; but , in scrupulous avoid- ance of tedious and redundant annotation , we have added nothing of our own after having satis- fied ourselves of the accuracy ...
... John- son's works , we have left no portion of the origi- nal narrative unsifted ; but , in scrupulous avoid- ance of tedious and redundant annotation , we have added nothing of our own after having satis- fied ourselves of the accuracy ...
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... John Gilbert Cooper related , that soon after the pub- lication of his dictionary , Garrick being asked by Johnson what people said of it , told him , that among other animad- versions , it was objected that he cited authorities which ...
... John Gilbert Cooper related , that soon after the pub- lication of his dictionary , Garrick being asked by Johnson what people said of it , told him , that among other animad- versions , it was objected that he cited authorities which ...
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... JOHN- SON . Sir , he hoped it would vex somebody . " " " " Dr. Goldsmith , upon occasion of Mrs. Lennox's bring- ing out a playf , said to Dr. Johnson at the club , that a person had advised him to go and hiss it , because she had at ...
... JOHN- SON . Sir , he hoped it would vex somebody . " " " " Dr. Goldsmith , upon occasion of Mrs. Lennox's bring- ing out a playf , said to Dr. Johnson at the club , that a person had advised him to go and hiss it , because she had at ...
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... John- • This assertion concerning Johnson's insensibility to the pathetick powers of Otway is too round . I once asked him , whether he did not think Otway fre- quently tender ; when he answered , " Sir , he is all tenderness ...
... John- • This assertion concerning Johnson's insensibility to the pathetick powers of Otway is too round . I once asked him , whether he did not think Otway fre- quently tender ; when he answered , " Sir , he is all tenderness ...
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