The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1848 |
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... LUCY PORTER . ( 1 ) " Jan. 25. 1759. ( 2 ) [ The beginning of the writing torn and lost . ] • • • · If " You will forgive me if I am not yet so composed as to give any directions about any thing . But you are wiser and better than I ...
... LUCY PORTER . ( 1 ) " Jan. 25. 1759. ( 2 ) [ The beginning of the writing torn and lost . ] • • • · If " You will forgive me if I am not yet so composed as to give any directions about any thing . But you are wiser and better than I ...
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... Lucy , the only person now left in the world with whom I think myself connected . There needed not my dear mother's desire , for every heart must lean to somebody , and I have nobody but ... LUCY PORTER . " March 102 1759 LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... Lucy , the only person now left in the world with whom I think myself connected . There needed not my dear mother's desire , for every heart must lean to somebody , and I have nobody but ... LUCY PORTER . " March 102 1759 LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... LUCY PORTER . " March 1. 1759 . " DEAR MADAM , -I thought your last letter long in coming ; and did not require or expect such an inventory of little things as you have sent me . I could have taken your word for a matter of much greater ...
... LUCY PORTER . " March 1. 1759 . " DEAR MADAM , -I thought your last letter long in coming ; and did not require or expect such an inventory of little things as you have sent me . I could have taken your word for a matter of much greater ...
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... LUCY PORTER . " May 10. 1759 . " DEAR MADAM , -I am almost ashamed to tell you that all your letters came safe , and that I have been always very well , but hindered , I hardly know how , from writing . I sent , last week , some of my ...
... LUCY PORTER . " May 10. 1759 . " DEAR MADAM , -I am almost ashamed to tell you that all your letters came safe , and that I have been always very well , but hindered , I hardly know how , from writing . I sent , last week , some of my ...
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... LUCY PORTER . " Inner Temple Lane , Jan. 13. 1761 . " DEAREST MADAM , -I ought to have begun the new year with repairing the omissions of the last , and to ( 1 ) [ Henry Mackenzie , Esq . died at Edinburgh , Jan. 14 . 1831 , in his ...
... LUCY PORTER . " Inner Temple Lane , Jan. 13. 1761 . " DEAREST MADAM , -I ought to have begun the new year with repairing the omissions of the last , and to ( 1 ) [ Henry Mackenzie , Esq . died at Edinburgh , Jan. 14 . 1831 , in his ...
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