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
... thought worthy of particular attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose com- pany has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I ...
... thought worthy of particular attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose com- pany has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I ...
Page xix
... 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 knew would ...
... 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 knew would ...
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... thought myself in the company , and of the party almost throughout . It has given very general satisfaction ; and those who have found most fault with a passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and ...
... thought myself in the company , and of the party almost throughout . It has given very general satisfaction ; and those who have found most fault with a passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and ...
Page xxix
... thought ; by which mankind are enabled , as it were , to see him live , and to " live o'er each scene " with him , as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life . Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as 1 ...
... thought ; by which mankind are enabled , as it were , to see him live , and to " live o'er each scene " with him , as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life . Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as 1 ...
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... thought it worth his while to express , with any degree of point , should perish . For this almost superstitious reverence I have found very old and venerable authority , quoted by our great modern prelate , Secker , in whose tenth ...
... thought it worth his while to express , with any degree of point , should perish . For this almost superstitious reverence I have found very old and venerable authority , quoted by our great modern prelate , Secker , in whose tenth ...
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