The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 1National ilustrated library, 1851 |
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... probably in circulation in 1737 , when Johnson first came to London . - MALONE . 3 The author appears to me to have misunderstood Johnson in this instance . He did not , I conceive , mean to say , that , when he first began to write ...
... probably in circulation in 1737 , when Johnson first came to London . - MALONE . 3 The author appears to me to have misunderstood Johnson in this instance . He did not , I conceive , mean to say , that , when he first began to write ...
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... probably the person meant . - BOSWELL . 2 Alluding probably to Mr. Auditor Benson . See the " Dunciad , " b . iv . - MALONE . On erecting a monument to Milton in Westminster Abbey , " Auditor Benson " in- scribed his own name on it as ...
... probably the person meant . - BOSWELL . 2 Alluding probably to Mr. Auditor Benson . See the " Dunciad , " b . iv . - MALONE . On erecting a monument to Milton in Westminster Abbey , " Auditor Benson " in- scribed his own name on it as ...
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... probably was not oftener in the wrong than she was , in the little disagreements which sometimes troubled his married state , during which , he owned to me , that the gloomy irritability of his existence was more painful to him than ...
... probably was not oftener in the wrong than she was , in the little disagreements which sometimes troubled his married state , during which , he owned to me , that the gloomy irritability of his existence was more painful to him than ...
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