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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... DAVID GARRICK , FROM A CONTEMPORARY PRINT 100 101 . 103 THE GREEN - ROOM OF DRURY - LANE THEATRE , FROM A PAINTING BY ZOFFANY JOHNSON , BRAUCLERK , AND LANGTON , AT COVENT GARDEN . 109 · 126 PORTRAIT OF BENNET LANGTON , FROM A DRAWING ...
... DAVID GARRICK , FROM A CONTEMPORARY PRINT 100 101 . 103 THE GREEN - ROOM OF DRURY - LANE THEATRE , FROM A PAINTING BY ZOFFANY JOHNSON , BRAUCLERK , AND LANGTON , AT COVENT GARDEN . 109 · 126 PORTRAIT OF BENNET LANGTON , FROM A DRAWING ...
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... David Garrick , whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend . But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death , which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public ...
... David Garrick , whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend . But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death , which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public ...
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... David Garrick and his brother George , and a Mr. Offely , a young gentleman of good fortune who died early . As yet his name had nothing of that celebrity which afterwards commanded the highest attention and respect of mankind . Had ...
... David Garrick and his brother George , and a Mr. Offely , a young gentleman of good fortune who died early . As yet his name had nothing of that celebrity which afterwards commanded the highest attention and respect of mankind . Had ...
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... Garrick , the elder brother of David , told me that he remembered Johnson's borrowing the Turkish History of him , in order to form his play from it . When he had finished some part of it , he read what he had done to Mr. Walmesley ...
... Garrick , the elder brother of David , told me that he remembered Johnson's borrowing the Turkish History of him , in order to form his play from it . When he had finished some part of it , he read what he had done to Mr. Walmesley ...
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... David Garrick , went thither at the same time , 1 with intent to complete his education , and follow the profession 1 Both of them used to talk pleasantly of this their first journey to London . Garrick , evidently meaning to embellish ...
... David Garrick , went thither at the same time , 1 with intent to complete his education , and follow the profession 1 Both of them used to talk pleasantly of this their first journey to London . Garrick , evidently meaning to embellish ...
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