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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... kind approbation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the head of a college , as a writer , and as a most amiable man , had known Johnson from his early years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that ...
... kind approbation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the head of a college , as a writer , and as a most amiable man , had known Johnson from his early years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that ...
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... kind of writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most voluminous of which is one compiled for the booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight , ' a man whom ...
... kind of writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most voluminous of which is one compiled for the booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight , ' a man whom ...
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... kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can 1 Plutarch's Life of Alexander ; Langhorne's translation . - Boswell . portray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent ...
... kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can 1 Plutarch's Life of Alexander ; Langhorne's translation . - Boswell . portray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent ...
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... kind ( His various plumage sporting in the wind ) , That post , and all the rest , shall be my care ; But shall I , then , forsake the unfinish'd war ? How would the Trojans brand great Hector's name ! And one base action sully all my ...
... kind ( His various plumage sporting in the wind ) , That post , and all the rest , shall be my care ; But shall I , then , forsake the unfinish'd war ? How would the Trojans brand great Hector's name ! And one base action sully all my ...
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... kind , More false , more cruel , than the seas or wind . " Toil on , dull crowd , " in ecstacies he cries , " For wealth or title , perishable prize ; " While I those transitory blessings scorn , " Secure of praise from ages yet unborn ...
... kind , More false , more cruel , than the seas or wind . " Toil on , dull crowd , " in ecstacies he cries , " For wealth or title , perishable prize ; " While I those transitory blessings scorn , " Secure of praise from ages yet unborn ...
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