The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... acquaintance with the metre in the learned languages : though I was somewhat mortified that I had it not so much to myself as I should have thought . " " Talking of the minuteness with which people will In a letter written by Johnson to ...
... acquaintance with the metre in the learned languages : though I was somewhat mortified that I had it not so much to myself as I should have thought . " " Talking of the minuteness with which people will In a letter written by Johnson to ...
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... acquainted with Mr. Dossie , author of a treatise on agriculture ; and said of him , Sir , of the objects which the Society of Arts have chiefly in view , the chymical effects of bodies operating upon other bodies , he knows more than ...
... acquainted with Mr. Dossie , author of a treatise on agriculture ; and said of him , Sir , of the objects which the Society of Arts have chiefly in view , the chymical effects of bodies operating upon other bodies , he knows more than ...
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... acquaintance remembers to have heard her uncle sing those homely stanzas more than forty - five years ago . He repeated the second thus ; She shall breed young lords and ladies fair , And ride abroad in a coach and three pair , And the ...
... acquaintance remembers to have heard her uncle sing those homely stanzas more than forty - five years ago . He repeated the second thus ; She shall breed young lords and ladies fair , And ride abroad in a coach and three pair , And the ...
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... acquaintance with one of the clas- sicks than Johnson expected , when the gentleman left the room , he observed , ' You see , now , how little any body reads . ' Mr. Langton happening to mention his having read a good deal in ...
... acquaintance with one of the clas- sicks than Johnson expected , when the gentleman left the room , he observed , ' You see , now , how little any body reads . ' Mr. Langton happening to mention his having read a good deal in ...
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... acquaintance can bear testimony to the frankness of his communications in private society . It is not my intention to dwell upon each of Johnson's lives of the Poets , or attempt an analysis of their merits , find it . Your informations ...
... acquaintance can bear testimony to the frankness of his communications in private society . It is not my intention to dwell upon each of Johnson's lives of the Poets , or attempt an analysis of their merits , find it . Your informations ...
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