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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... elegant Literature , is well known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private ...
... elegant Literature , is well known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private ...
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... elegant and worthy qualities are united ; and whose society , therefore , is more valued by those who know him . It is painful to me to think , that while I was carrying on this work , several of those to whom it would have been most ...
... elegant and worthy qualities are united ; and whose society , therefore , is more valued by those who know him . It is painful to me to think , that while I was carrying on this work , several of those to whom it would have been most ...
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... elegance , said to me , " You have made them all talk Johnson . " Yes , I may add , I have Johnsonised the land ; and I trust they will not only talk , but think , Johnson . To enumerate those to whom I have been thus indebted would be ...
... elegance , said to me , " You have made them all talk Johnson . " Yes , I may add , I have Johnsonised the land ; and I trust they will not only talk , but think , Johnson . To enumerate those to whom I have been thus indebted would be ...
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... elegance , to do justice to one of the most instructive and entertaining works in the English language . April 8 , 1799 . EDM . MALONE . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION . In this edition are inserted some new letters of which the ...
... elegance , to do justice to one of the most instructive and entertaining works in the English language . April 8 , 1799 . EDM . MALONE . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION . In this edition are inserted some new letters of which the ...
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... elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons , the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at different times , in a desultory manner ...
... elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons , the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at different times , in a desultory manner ...
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