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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... seems I judged too well of the world ; for , though I could scarcely believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed , that many persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough into Johnson's character , so as to ...
... seems I judged too well of the world ; for , though I could scarcely believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed , that many persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough into Johnson's character , so as to ...
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... seems to me , in my moments of self - complacency , that this extensive biographical work , however inferior in its nature , may in one respect be VOL . I. assimilated to the " Odyssey . " Amidst a thousand MR . BOSWELL'S ADVERTISEMENTS ...
... seems to me , in my moments of self - complacency , that this extensive biographical work , however inferior in its nature , may in one respect be VOL . I. assimilated to the " Odyssey . " Amidst a thousand MR . BOSWELL'S ADVERTISEMENTS ...
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... seems to lay it down as a principle that every life must be a book , and what's worse , it proves a book without a life ; for what do we know of Boileau , after all his tedious stuff ? You are the only one ( and I speak it without a ...
... seems to lay it down as a principle that every life must be a book , and what's worse , it proves a book without a life ; for what do we know of Boileau , after all his tedious stuff ? You are the only one ( and I speak it without a ...
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... seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negligent about the per- formance . They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from public papers , but imagine themselves writing a life , when they ...
... seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negligent about the per- formance . They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from public papers , but imagine themselves writing a life , when they ...
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... seem trifling to some , and , perhaps , to the collector himself , may not be most agreeable to many ; and the greater number that an author can please in any degree , the more pleasure does there arise to a benevolent mind . To those ...
... seem trifling to some , and , perhaps , to the collector himself , may not be most agreeable to many ; and the greater number that an author can please in any degree , the more pleasure does there arise to a benevolent mind . To those ...
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