The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... 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 , severely chastised by both Macaulay and Carlyle , and much ...
... 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 , severely chastised by both Macaulay and Carlyle , and much ...
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... once , and I am sure not above twice . Johnson might have esteemed him for his decent , religious demeanour , and his knowledge of books and literary history ; but from the rigid formality of his manners , it is evident that they never ...
... once , and I am sure not above twice . Johnson might have esteemed him for his decent , religious demeanour , and his knowledge of books and literary history ; but from the rigid formality of his manners , it is evident that they never ...
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... once lived in great intimacy with him.1 There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value ...
... once lived in great intimacy with him.1 There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value ...
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... once himself of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , " They never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ; but such a one is as good a scholar as ...
... once himself of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , " They never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ; but such a one is as good a scholar as ...
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... once pleasantly remarked to me , " how wonderfully well he had contrived to be idle without them . " Lord Chesterfield , however , has justly observed in one of his letters , when earnestly cautioning a friend against the pernicious ...
... once pleasantly remarked to me , " how wonderfully well he had contrived to be idle without them . " Lord Chesterfield , however , has justly observed in one of his letters , when earnestly cautioning a friend against the pernicious ...
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