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 Nearly Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 1G. Routledge & Company, Farringdon Street, 1857 - 300 pages |
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... 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 of my own work , by contrasting it with that of which I have spoken , is so well ...
... 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 of my own work , by contrasting it with that of which I have spoken , is so well ...
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... Bishop of Lincoln , whose character in the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became Chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in Ireland . He ...
... Bishop of Lincoln , whose character in the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became Chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in Ireland . He ...
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... more than by sauntering away the hours of vacation in the fields , during which he was more engaged in talking to himself than to his companion . " Dr. Percy , the Bishop of Dromore , who was 10 [ 1724 . BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... more than by sauntering away the hours of vacation in the fields , during which he was more engaged in talking to himself than to his companion . " Dr. Percy , the Bishop of Dromore , who was 10 [ 1724 . BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... Bishop of Dromore , who was long intimately ac- quainted with him , and has preserved a few anecdotes concerning him ... Bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two grammar schools . " At one , I learned much in the school , but ...
... Bishop of Dromore , who was long intimately ac- quainted with him , and has preserved a few anecdotes concerning him ... Bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two grammar schools . " At one , I learned much in the school , but ...
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... Bishop of Dromore many years afterwards . - BOSWELL . 2 Yet here his genius was so distinguished , that although little better than a schoolboy , he was admitted into the best company of the place , and had no common attention paid to ...
... Bishop of Dromore many years afterwards . - BOSWELL . 2 Yet here his genius was so distinguished , that although little better than a schoolboy , he was admitted into the best company of the place , and had no common attention paid to ...
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