The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page ix
... labour and anxious attention with which I have col- lected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with careless facility . The stretch of mind and prompt ...
... labour and anxious attention with which I have col- lected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with careless facility . The stretch of mind and prompt ...
Page xii
... labour , I do not wish to conceal : but whatever doubts I at any time entertained , have been entirely removed by the very favourable re- ception with which it has been honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render ...
... labour , I do not wish to conceal : but whatever doubts I at any time entertained , have been entirely removed by the very favourable re- ception with which it has been honoured . That reception has excited my best exertions to render ...
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... labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . " He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy , bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two grammar schools : " At one , I learned much in the school , but little from the master ...
... labour , or to my former master . Yet he taught me a great deal . " He thus discriminated to Dr. Percy , bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two grammar schools : " At one , I learned much in the school , but little from the master ...
Page 105
... labour . Johnson told me , that as soon as he found that the speeches were thought genuine , he determined that he would write no more of them ; " for he would not be accessary to the propagation of falsehood . " And such was the ...
... labour . Johnson told me , that as soon as he found that the speeches were thought genuine , he determined that he would write no more of them ; " for he would not be accessary to the propagation of falsehood . " And such was the ...
Page 120
... labour could attain . At all periods of his life Johnson used to talk con- temptuously of players ; but in this work he speaks of them with peculiar acrimony ; for which , perhaps , there was formerly too much reason , from the ...
... labour could attain . At all periods of his life Johnson used to talk con- temptuously of players ; but in this work he speaks of them with peculiar acrimony ; for which , perhaps , there was formerly too much reason , from the ...
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