The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page vii
... Johnson's wit , freely showed to the world its dexterity , even when I was myself the object of it . I trusted that I should be liberally understood , as knowing very well what I was about , and by no means as simply unconscious of the ...
... Johnson's wit , freely showed to the world its dexterity , even when I was myself the object of it . I trusted that I should be liberally understood , as knowing very well what I was about , and by no means as simply unconscious of the ...
Page xvii
... Johnson died * ; acknowl . Letter in the General Advertiser to excite the attention of the publick to the ... Johnson died . See Prefatory Notice to the Rambler in the second volume of the Oxford edition of Johnson's Works . - ED ...
... Johnson died * ; acknowl . Letter in the General Advertiser to excite the attention of the publick to the ... Johnson died . See Prefatory Notice to the Rambler in the second volume of the Oxford edition of Johnson's Works . - ED ...
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... Johnson trod on ; If it had liv'd , it had been good luck , For then we'd had an odd one . There is surely internal evidence that this little composition combines in it what no child of three years old could pro- duce , without an ...
... Johnson trod on ; If it had liv'd , it had been good luck , For then we'd had an odd one . There is surely internal evidence that this little composition combines in it what no child of three years old could pro- duce , without an ...
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... Johnson was at school . Then came Hague , of whom as much might be said , with the addition that he was an elegant poet . Hague was succeeded by Green , afterwards bishop of Lincoln , whose character in the learned world is well known ...
... Johnson was at school . Then came Hague , of whom as much might be said , with the addition that he was an elegant poet . Hague was succeeded by Green , afterwards bishop of Lincoln , whose character in the learned world is well known ...
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... Johnson , upon all occasions , expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod * . " I would rather , " said he , " have the rod to be the general terrour to all , to make them learn , than tell a child , if you ...
... Johnson , upon all occasions , expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod * . " I would rather , " said he , " have the rod to be the general terrour to all , to make them learn , than tell a child , if you ...
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