The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : - " Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it will find you , to thank you for your very agreeable Tour , ' which I found here on my return from the ...
... wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : - " Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it will find you , to thank you for your very agreeable Tour , ' which I found here on my return from the ...
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... wrote , and said , and thought ; by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live , and to 1 Brit . Mus . 4320 , Avscough's Catal . Sloane MSS . B. THE DUTIES OF A BIOGRAPHER 5 " live o'er each 4 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
... wrote , and said , and thought ; by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live , and to 1 Brit . Mus . 4320 , Avscough's Catal . Sloane MSS . B. THE DUTIES OF A BIOGRAPHER 5 " live o'er each 4 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
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... wrote was poetry , whose essence consists , not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength and glow of a fancy , to which all the stores of nature and of art stand in prompt administration ; and in an eloquence which conveys their ...
... wrote was poetry , whose essence consists , not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength and glow of a fancy , to which all the stores of nature and of art stand in prompt administration ; and in an eloquence which conveys their ...
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... Lichfield having proposed to act The Distressed Mother [ by Ambrose Phillips ] , Johnson wrote this , and gave it to Mr. Hector to convey it privately to them . B. HIS READING For you , ye fair , I quit 26 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
... Lichfield having proposed to act The Distressed Mother [ by Ambrose Phillips ] , Johnson wrote this , and gave it to Mr. Hector to convey it privately to them . B. HIS READING For you , ye fair , I quit 26 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
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... much 1 Boswell himself suffered , or affected to suffer , from it , and wrote a series of essays in The London Magazine under the title of " The Hypochondriac . " think against it ; and this lasted till I went HIS RELIGION ...
... much 1 Boswell himself suffered , or affected to suffer , from it , and wrote a series of essays in The London Magazine under the title of " The Hypochondriac . " think against it ; and this lasted till I went HIS RELIGION ...
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