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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... literary Colossus . Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I gave , in my " Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , " of my being able to preserve his conversation in an authentic and lively manner , which opinion the Public has ...
... literary Colossus . Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I gave , in my " Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , " of my being able to preserve his conversation in an authentic and lively manner , which opinion the Public has ...
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... literary fame in a decorous style of diffidence . But I confess , that I am so formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the effusion of delight , on having obtained such fame , to me would be truly painful . Why then should I ...
... literary fame in a decorous style of diffidence . But I confess , that I am so formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the effusion of delight , on having obtained such fame , to me would be truly painful . Why then should I ...
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... " Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of Dr. Johnson , " by John Courtenay , Esq . M.P. - BOSWELL . inconsiderately betrayed a matter deeply interesting and of great delicacy AGE 20.1 21 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... " Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of Dr. Johnson , " by John Courtenay , Esq . M.P. - BOSWELL . inconsiderately betrayed a matter deeply interesting and of great delicacy AGE 20.1 21 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... literary parent , not to betray ignorance or incapacity , " for an Athenian ( Oxford ) blockhead is the worst of all blockheads . " Dryden ( who had studied at Cambridge ) says , in one of his Prologues , complimenting the rival ...
... literary parent , not to betray ignorance or incapacity , " for an Athenian ( Oxford ) blockhead is the worst of all blockheads . " Dryden ( who had studied at Cambridge ) says , in one of his Prologues , complimenting the rival ...
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... literary labour , of which Mr. Hector has favoured me with a minute account . Having mentioned that he had read at Pembroke College a " Voyage to Abyssinia , " by Lobo , a Portuguese Jesuit , and that he thought an abridgment and ...
... literary labour , of which Mr. Hector has favoured me with a minute account . Having mentioned that he had read at Pembroke College a " Voyage to Abyssinia , " by Lobo , a Portuguese Jesuit , and that he thought an abridgment and ...
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