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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... honour from corruption , But such an honest chronicler as Griffith . " 1 SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII . See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale , dated Ostick in Skie , September 30 , 1773 : " Boswell writes a regular Journal of our travels ...
... honour from corruption , But such an honest chronicler as Griffith . " 1 SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII . See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale , dated Ostick in Skie , September 30 , 1773 : " Boswell writes a regular Journal of our travels ...
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... honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I ... honour to the press of Mr. Henry Baldwin , now Master of the Worshipful Company of Stationers , whom I have long ...
... honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I ... honour to the press of Mr. Henry Baldwin , now Master of the Worshipful Company of Stationers , whom I have long ...
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... honour and happiness of enjoying his friendship for upwards of twenty years ; as I had the scheme of writing his life con- stantly in view ; as he was well apprised of this circumstance , and from time to time obligingly satisfied my ...
... honour and happiness of enjoying his friendship for upwards of twenty years ; as I had the scheme of writing his life con- stantly in view ; as he was well apprised of this circumstance , and from time to time obligingly satisfied my ...
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... honour to make himself but a pair of tables , to take the wise and pithy words of others , than to have every word of his own to be made an apophthegm or an oracle . " [ Advancement of Learning , Book I. ] Having said thus much by way ...
... honour to make himself but a pair of tables , to take the wise and pithy words of others , than to have every word of his own to be made an apophthegm or an oracle . " [ Advancement of Learning , Book I. ] Having said thus much by way ...
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... honour thee for this thy duty . " That superiority over his fellows , which he maintained with so much dignity in his march through life , was not assumed from vanity and ostentation , but was the natural and constant effect of those ...
... honour thee for this thy duty . " That superiority over his fellows , which he maintained with so much dignity in his march through life , was not assumed from vanity and ostentation , but was the natural and constant effect of those ...
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