The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... curiosity of seeing with what kind of performances the age and country in which they were written was delighted : for it is to be ap- prehended , that at the time when very wild improbable tales were well received , the people were in a ...
... curiosity of seeing with what kind of performances the age and country in which they were written was delighted : for it is to be ap- prehended , that at the time when very wild improbable tales were well received , the people were in a ...
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... curiosity to visit our country ; as he thought , if such were the lighter periodical essays of our authors , their productions on more weighty occasions must be wonder- ful indeed . " " He observed once , at sir Joshua Reynolds's , that ...
... curiosity to visit our country ; as he thought , if such were the lighter periodical essays of our authors , their productions on more weighty occasions must be wonder- ful indeed . " " He observed once , at sir Joshua Reynolds's , that ...
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... curiosity , which is perhaps the only one of its kind . It is an original memorandum of Dr. Johnson's of hints for the life of Pope , written down as they were suggested to his mind in the course of his researches . These notes should ...
... curiosity , which is perhaps the only one of its kind . It is an original memorandum of Dr. Johnson's of hints for the life of Pope , written down as they were suggested to his mind in the course of his researches . These notes should ...
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... curiosity by gentle and unsuspected conveyance [ among ] into the gay , the idle , and the wealthy . 66 Framed rather for those that [ wish ] are learning to write . " Domestick [ manners ] scenes . " In his life of Parnell , I wonder ...
... curiosity by gentle and unsuspected conveyance [ among ] into the gay , the idle , and the wealthy . 66 Framed rather for those that [ wish ] are learning to write . " Domestick [ manners ] scenes . " In his life of Parnell , I wonder ...
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... curiosity concerning the common occur- rences that were then passing , which appeared somewhat remarkable in a man of such intellectual stores , of such an advanced age , and who had retired from life with declared disappointment in his ...
... curiosity concerning the common occur- rences that were then passing , which appeared somewhat remarkable in a man of such intellectual stores , of such an advanced age , and who had retired from life with declared disappointment in his ...
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