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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... probably be thought ridiculously ostentatious . Let me only observe , as a specimen of my trouble , that I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well ...
... probably be thought ridiculously ostentatious . Let me only observe , as a specimen of my trouble , that I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well ...
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... probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to writing many particulars of the progress of his mind and fortunes , he never had ...
... probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to writing many particulars of the progress of his mind and fortunes , he never had ...
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... probably have produced something sublime upon the gunpowder - plot . To apologise for his neglect , he gave in a short copy of verses , entitled Somnium , containing a common thought ; " that the Muse had come to him in his sleep , and ...
... probably have produced something sublime upon the gunpowder - plot . To apologise for his neglect , he gave in a short copy of verses , entitled Somnium , containing a common thought ; " that the Muse had come to him in his sleep , and ...
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... probably was , that if he travelled , it behoved him , in justice to his renowned literary parent , not to betray ignorance or incapacity , " for an Athenian ( Oxford ) blockhead is the worst of all blockheads . " Dryden ( who had ...
... probably was , that if he travelled , it behoved him , in justice to his renowned literary parent , not to betray ignorance or incapacity , " for an Athenian ( Oxford ) blockhead is the worst of all blockheads . " Dryden ( who had ...
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... probably got a little money from Mr. Warren ; and we are certain that he executed here one piece of literary labour , of which Mr. Hector has favoured me with a minute account . Having mentioned that he had read at Pembroke College a ...
... probably got a little money from Mr. Warren ; and we are certain that he executed here one piece of literary labour , of which Mr. Hector has favoured me with a minute account . Having mentioned that he had read at Pembroke College a ...
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