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... honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I ... honour to the press of Mr. Henry Baldwin , now master of the wor- shipful company of stationers , whom I have long ...
... honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render my book more perfect ; and in this endeavour I ... honour to the press of Mr. Henry Baldwin , now master of the wor- shipful company of stationers , whom I have long ...
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... honour- able and reverend friend , speaking of the favourable re- ception of my volumes , even in the circles of fashion and elegance , said to me , you have made them all talk Johnson . " - Yes , I may add , I have Johnsonised the land ...
... honour- able and reverend friend , speaking of the favourable re- ception of my volumes , even in the circles of fashion and elegance , said to me , you have made them all talk Johnson . " - Yes , I may add , I have Johnsonised the land ...
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... HONOUR FROM CORRUPTION , BUT SUCH AN HONEST CHRONICLER AS GRIFFITH * . SHAKSPEARE , Henry the Eighth . * Seé Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale , dated Ostick in Skie , September 30 , 1773 : " Boswell writes a regular journal of our ...
... HONOUR FROM CORRUPTION , BUT SUCH AN HONEST CHRONICLER AS GRIFFITH * . SHAKSPEARE , Henry the Eighth . * Seé Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale , dated Ostick in Skie , September 30 , 1773 : " Boswell writes a regular journal of our ...
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... honoured with a more growing fame . The keenest shafts of ridicule were levelled against them on their first appearance ; and whole classes of men , the most opposed in general sentiments and taste , concurred in censuring Boswell's ...
... honoured with a more growing fame . The keenest shafts of ridicule were levelled against them on their first appearance ; and whole classes of men , the most opposed in general sentiments and taste , concurred in censuring Boswell's ...
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... honour and happiness of enjoying his friendship for upwards of twenty years ; as I had the scheme of writing his life constantly in view ; as he was well apprized of this circumstance , and from time to time obligingly satisfied my ...
... honour and happiness of enjoying his friendship for upwards of twenty years ; as I had the scheme of writing his life constantly in view ; as he was well apprized of this circumstance , and from time to time obligingly satisfied my ...
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