The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order : a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons : and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published : the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished : in Two Volumes, Volume 2Henry Baldwin, 1791 |
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... ( said he , ) before leaving England I am to take a jaunt to Oxford , Birmingham , my native city Lichfield , and my old friend , Dr. Taylor's , at Ashbourne , in Derbyshire . I shall go in a few days , and you , . Boswell , shall go with ...
... ( said he , ) before leaving England I am to take a jaunt to Oxford , Birmingham , my native city Lichfield , and my old friend , Dr. Taylor's , at Ashbourne , in Derbyshire . I shall go in a few days , and you , . Boswell , shall go with ...
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... said to the Lady Abbess of a convent , Madam , you are here , not for the love of virtue , but the fear of vice . ' She said , “ She should remember this as long as she lived . ” I thought it hard to give her this view of her situation ...
... said to the Lady Abbess of a convent , Madam , you are here , not for the love of virtue , but the fear of vice . ' She said , “ She should remember this as long as she lived . ” I thought it hard to give her this view of her situation ...
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... said , Mr. Robert Dodney's life should be written , as he had been so much connected with the wits of his time , and by his literary merit had raised himself from the station of a footman . Mr. Warton said , he had published a little ...
... said , Mr. Robert Dodney's life should be written , as he had been so much connected with the wits of his time , and by his literary merit had raised himself from the station of a footman . Mr. Warton said , he had published a little ...
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... said it was not fair to attack us thus unexpectedly ; he should have warned us of our danger , before we entered his garden of powery eloquence , by advertising , “ Spring - guns and man - traps set here . ” The authour had been an ...
... said it was not fair to attack us thus unexpectedly ; he should have warned us of our danger , before we entered his garden of powery eloquence , by advertising , “ Spring - guns and man - traps set here . ” The authour had been an ...
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... said we had the beaver . Or why does he not write of the grey rat , the Hanover rat , as it is called , because it is said to have come into this country about the time that the family of Hanover came ? I should like to see ' The ...
... said we had the beaver . Or why does he not write of the grey rat , the Hanover rat , as it is called , because it is said to have come into this country about the time that the family of Hanover came ? I should like to see ' The ...
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