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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... periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenour of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , morality , loyalty and subordination , while ...
... periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenour of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion , morality , loyalty and subordination , while ...
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... period of closing life with the light of pious hope . " This is so beautifully imagined , that I would not suppress it . But , like many other theories , it is deduced from a supposed fact , which is , indeed , a fiction . - BOSWELL . 2 ...
... period of closing life with the light of pious hope . " This is so beautifully imagined , that I would not suppress it . But , like many other theories , it is deduced from a supposed fact , which is , indeed , a fiction . - BOSWELL . 2 ...
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... periods of his life , we must not regard his own hasty confession of idleness ; for we see , when he explains himself , that he was acquiring various stores ; and indeed he himself concluded the account , with saying , " I would not ...
... periods of his life , we must not regard his own hasty confession of idleness ; for we see , when he explains himself , that he was acquiring various stores ; and indeed he himself concluded the account , with saying , " I would not ...
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... period marked his character , gathered such strength in his twentieth year , as to afflict him in a dreadful manner . While he was at Lichfield , in the college vacation of the year 1729 , he felt himself overwhelmed with a horrible ...
... period marked his character , gathered such strength in his twentieth year , as to afflict him in a dreadful manner . While he was at Lichfield , in the college vacation of the year 1729 , he felt himself overwhelmed with a horrible ...
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... period so early , that the speech of the Ghost in Hamlet terrified him when he was alone ; that Horace's Odes were the compositions in which he took most delight , and it was long before he liked his Epistles and Satires . He told me ...
... period so early , that the speech of the Ghost in Hamlet terrified him when he was alone ; that Horace's Odes were the compositions in which he took most delight , and it was long before he liked his Epistles and Satires . He told me ...
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