The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... heard him fol- lowing her . " What's the matter ? " said she . " I can say it , " he replied ; and repeated it distinctly , though he could not have read it more than twice . But there has been another story of his infant precocity ЕТАТ ...
... heard him fol- lowing her . " What's the matter ? " said she . " I can say it , " he replied ; and repeated it distinctly , though he could not have read it more than twice . But there has been another story of his infant precocity ЕТАТ ...
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... heard it from his mother . So difficult is it to obtain an authentick relation of facts , and such authority may there be for errour ; for he assured me , that his father made the verses , and wished to pass them for his child's . He ...
... heard it from his mother . So difficult is it to obtain an authentick relation of facts , and such authority may there be for errour ; for he assured me , that his father made the verses , and wished to pass them for his child's . He ...
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... heard or read . Mr. Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little pause , he repeated verbatim , varying only one epithet , by which he improved the line . He never joined with the other boys in their ...
... heard or read . Mr. Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little pause , he repeated verbatim , varying only one epithet , by which he improved the line . He never joined with the other boys in their ...
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... heard him attribute to these extravagant fictions that unsettled turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing in any pro- fession . " After having resided for some time at the house of his uncle , Cornelius Ford , Johnson was , at the ...
... heard him attribute to these extravagant fictions that unsettled turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing in any pro- fession . " After having resided for some time at the house of his uncle , Cornelius Ford , Johnson was , at the ...
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... heard of it . A Miscellany of Poems collected by a person of the name of Husbands , was published at Oxford in 1731. In that miscellany Johnson's translation of the Messiah ap- peared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poeticks ...
... heard of it . A Miscellany of Poems collected by a person of the name of Husbands , was published at Oxford in 1731. In that miscellany Johnson's translation of the Messiah ap- peared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poeticks ...
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