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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... soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can 1 Plutarch's Life of Alexander ; Langhorne's translation . - Boswell . portray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent INTRODUCTION . xxxi.
... soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can 1 Plutarch's Life of Alexander ; Langhorne's translation . - Boswell . portray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent INTRODUCTION . xxxi.
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... soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original . " [ Rambler , No. 60. ] I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minute- ness on some occasions of my detail of Johnson's conversation , and how ...
... soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original . " [ Rambler , No. 60. ] I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minute- ness on some occasions of my detail of Johnson's conversation , and how ...
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... soon discovered to be bad , and , to relieve them , an issue was cut in his left arm . At the end of ten weeks from his birth , he was taken home from his nurse , " a poor diseased infant , almost blind . " See a work , already quoted ...
... soon discovered to be bad , and , to relieve them , an issue was cut in his left arm . At the end of ten weeks from his birth , he was taken home from his nurse , " a poor diseased infant , almost blind . " See a work , already quoted ...
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... soon found could be of much service to him in his trade , by his knowledge of literature ; and he even obtained the assistance of his pen in furnishing some numbers of a periodical Essay printed in the newspaper of which Warren was ...
... soon found could be of much service to him in his trade , by his knowledge of literature ; and he even obtained the assistance of his pen in furnishing some numbers of a periodical Essay printed in the newspaper of which Warren was ...
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... soon done , one Osborn , who was Mr. Warren's printer , was set to work with what was ready , and Johnson engaged to supply the press with copy as it should be wanted , but his constitutional indolence soon prevailed , and the work was ...
... soon done , one Osborn , who was Mr. Warren's printer , was set to work with what was ready , and Johnson engaged to supply the press with copy as it should be wanted , but his constitutional indolence soon prevailed , and the work was ...
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