The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... favours received , I have this opportunity , my dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness , -- for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me -- for the ...
... favours received , I have this opportunity , my dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness , -- for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me -- for the ...
Page xiv
... favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my Work . But I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. MALONE , who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my manuscript , and ...
... favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my Work . But I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. MALONE , who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my manuscript , and ...
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... favoured with the most liberal communications by his friends ; I flatter myself that few biographers have entered upon such a work as this with more advantages ; independent of literary abilities , in which I am not vain enough to ...
... favoured with the most liberal communications by his friends ; I flatter myself that few biographers have entered upon such a work as this with more advantages ; independent of literary abilities , in which I am not vain enough to ...
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... favour me : - " These infant numbers contain the seeds of those propensities which through his life so strongly marked his character , of that poetic talent which afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for excepting his ...
... favour me : - " These infant numbers contain the seeds of those propensities which through his life so strongly marked his character , of that poetic talent which afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for excepting his ...
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... favour of Mr. Wentworth , son of one of his masters , and of Mr. Hector , his school- fellow and friend ; from which I select the following specimens : Translation of VIRGIL . Pastoral I. MELIBUS . Now , Tityrus , you , supine and ...
... favour of Mr. Wentworth , son of one of his masters , and of Mr. Hector , his school- fellow and friend ; from which I select the following specimens : Translation of VIRGIL . Pastoral I. MELIBUS . Now , Tityrus , you , supine and ...
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