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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Page xvii
... lived , whose com- pany has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long and uninterrupted friendship between us . If gratitude should be ...
... lived , whose com- pany has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long and uninterrupted friendship between us . If gratitude should be ...
Page xxi
... lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , which he contributed to improve , could be finished , the world has been deprived of that most valuable man ; a loss of which the ...
... lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , which he contributed to improve , could be finished , the world has been deprived of that most valuable man ; a loss of which the ...
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... lived together with companionable ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the finer and less obvious parts of Johnson's character . His being appointed one of his executors , gave ...
... lived together with companionable ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the finer and less obvious parts of Johnson's character . His being appointed one of his executors , gave ...
Page xxix
... lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography : which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value of my ...
... lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography : which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value of my ...
Page xxx
... lived . And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write , not his panegyric , which must be all praise , but his Life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be supposed to be entirely perfect . To be as he was , is ...
... lived . And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write , not his panegyric , which must be all praise , but his Life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be supposed to be entirely perfect . To be as he was , is ...
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