The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... death in 1812. From that year onwards the book was more than once reprinted under various hands , but still practically remained much as Malone had left it till Croker's edition appeared in 1831. The new editor was , as everyone knows ...
... death in 1812. From that year onwards the book was more than once reprinted under various hands , but still practically remained much as Malone had left it till Croker's edition appeared in 1831. The new editor was , as everyone knows ...
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... death . As I had the honour and happiness of enjoying his friendship for upwards of twenty years ; as I had the scheme of writing his life constantly in view ; as he was well apprised of this circumstance , and from time to time 1 Idler ...
... death . As I had the honour and happiness of enjoying his friendship for upwards of twenty years ; as I had the scheme of writing his life constantly in view ; as he was well apprised of this circumstance , and from time to time 1 Idler ...
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... death had ordered all his papers to be burnt . The volume also contained the correspondence between Johnson and Miss Boothby mentioned post . The Autobiography was printed by Croker in an Appendix : the correspondence by Napier in the ...
... death had ordered all his papers to be burnt . The volume also contained the correspondence between Johnson and Miss Boothby mentioned post . The Autobiography was printed by Croker in an Appendix : the correspondence by Napier in the ...
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... death the envenom'd dart , Nor needs the guard of Moorish bows : Though Scythia's icy cliffs he treads , Or horrid Afric's faithless sands ; Or where the famed Hydaspes spreads His liquid wealth o'er barbarous lands . For while by ...
... death the envenom'd dart , Nor needs the guard of Moorish bows : Though Scythia's icy cliffs he treads , Or horrid Afric's faithless sands ; Or where the famed Hydaspes spreads His liquid wealth o'er barbarous lands . For while by ...
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... death . The inexorable sisters have decreed That Priam's house , and Priam's self shall bleed : The day will come , in which proud Troy shall yield , And spread its smoking ruins o'er the field . Yet Hecuba's , nor Priam's hoary age ...
... death . The inexorable sisters have decreed That Priam's house , and Priam's self shall bleed : The day will come , in which proud Troy shall yield , And spread its smoking ruins o'er the field . Yet Hecuba's , nor Priam's hoary age ...
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