The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... consider his extraordinary endowments , or his various works , has been equalled by few in any age , is an arduous , and may be reckoned in me a presumptuous task . Had Dr. Johnson written his own Life , in conformity with the opinion ...
... consider his extraordinary endowments , or his various works , has been equalled by few in any age , is an arduous , and may be reckoned in me a presumptuous task . Had Dr. Johnson written his own Life , in conformity with the opinion ...
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... consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I ...
... consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I ...
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... considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table talk and other anecdotes of our celebrated writers is valued , and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more , I am justified in preserving rather too many of ...
... considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table talk and other anecdotes of our celebrated writers is valued , and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more , I am justified in preserving rather too many of ...
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... consider- able distance from Lichfield . At that time booksellers ' shops , in the provincial towns of England , were very rare ; so that there was not one even in Birmingham , in which town old Mr. Johnson used to open a shop every ...
... consider- able distance from Lichfield . At that time booksellers ' shops , in the provincial towns of England , were very rare ; so that there was not one even in Birmingham , in which town old Mr. Johnson used to open a shop every ...
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... considers only as topics of ridicule : yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of Toryism , so curiously characteristic , that I shall not withhold it . It was communicated to me in a letter from Miss Mary Adye , of ...
... considers only as topics of ridicule : yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of Toryism , so curiously characteristic , that I shall not withhold it . It was communicated to me in a letter from Miss Mary Adye , of ...
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