The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... literary abilities , sable , and certainly makes his narrative ve in which I am not vain enough to compare ry unsatisfactory . But what is still worse , myself with some great names who have there is throughout the whole of it a dark ...
... literary abilities , sable , and certainly makes his narrative ve in which I am not vain enough to compare ry unsatisfactory . But what is still worse , myself with some great names who have there is throughout the whole of it a dark ...
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... literary men , and perhaps gave the first occasion for dis- tinguishing the society by the name of the Literary Club , an appellation which it nev- er assumed to itself . At these meetings , Johnson , as indeed he ' [ Probably Mrs ...
... literary men , and perhaps gave the first occasion for dis- tinguishing the society by the name of the Literary Club , an appellation which it nev- er assumed to itself . At these meetings , Johnson , as indeed he ' [ Probably Mrs ...
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... literary repu- tation alive as long as he himself lived ; and that , let me tell you , is a good deal . " GOLD- SMITH . " But I cannot agree that it was so . His literary reputation was dead long before his natural death . I consider an ...
... literary repu- tation alive as long as he himself lived ; and that , let me tell you , is a good deal . " GOLD- SMITH . " But I cannot agree that it was so . His literary reputation was dead long before his natural death . I consider an ...
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