The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... doubt I should not have been very prompt to gratify Sir John Hawkins with any compliment in his lifetime , I do now frankly acknowledge , that , in my opinion , his volume , however inadequate and improper as a life of Dr. Johnson , and ...
... doubt I should not have been very prompt to gratify Sir John Hawkins with any compliment in his lifetime , I do now frankly acknowledge , that , in my opinion , his volume , however inadequate and improper as a life of Dr. Johnson , and ...
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... doubt . For there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly unwise to pay ...
... doubt . For there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly unwise to pay ...
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... doubt of the truth of this anecdote , for she had heard it from his mother . So difficult is it to obtain an authentic relation of facts , and such authority may there be for error ; for he assured me , that his father made the verses ...
... doubt of the truth of this anecdote , for she had heard it from his mother . So difficult is it to obtain an authentic relation of facts , and such authority may there be for error ; for he assured me , that his father made the verses ...
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... doubt , from a proper pride . But , considering his ascetic disposition at times , as acknowledged by him- self in his Meditations , and the exaggerations with which some have treated the peculiarities of his character , I should not ...
... doubt , from a proper pride . But , considering his ascetic disposition at times , as acknowledged by him- self in his Meditations , and the exaggerations with which some have treated the peculiarities of his character , I should not ...
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... doubt the authenticity of this account , by the following circumstantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward , of Lichfield : - " I know those verses were addressed to Lucy Porter , when he was enamoured of her in his boyish ...
... doubt the authenticity of this account , by the following circumstantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward , of Lichfield : - " I know those verses were addressed to Lucy Porter , when he was enamoured of her in his boyish ...
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