Life of SAMUEL JOHNSON LL.D1952 |
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Page 288
... excellent poem , The Fleece . " Having talked of Grainger's Sugar - Cane , I mentioned to him Mr. Langton's having told me , that this poem , when read in manuscript at Sir Joshua Reynolds's had made all the assembled wits burst into a ...
... excellent poem , The Fleece . " Having talked of Grainger's Sugar - Cane , I mentioned to him Mr. Langton's having told me , that this poem , when read in manuscript at Sir Joshua Reynolds's had made all the assembled wits burst into a ...
Page 335
... excellent man , with a pretty good es- tate of his own , and the prospect of having the Earl of Loudoun's fortune and honours . Is not this a noble lot for our fair Hebridean ? How happy am I that she is to be in Ayrshire . We shall ...
... excellent man , with a pretty good es- tate of his own , and the prospect of having the Earl of Loudoun's fortune and honours . Is not this a noble lot for our fair Hebridean ? How happy am I that she is to be in Ayrshire . We shall ...
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... excellent charge when presiding over the diocese of Chester , justly ani- madverts upon this subject ; and observes of a reverend fop , that he " can be but half a beau . " Addison , in The Spectator , has given us a fine portrait of a ...
... excellent charge when presiding over the diocese of Chester , justly ani- madverts upon this subject ; and observes of a reverend fop , that he " can be but half a beau . " Addison , in The Spectator , has given us a fine portrait of a ...
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