The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order : a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons : and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published : the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished : in Three Volumes ...Henry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... she had not been a Carthaginian . " I gratefully acknowledge this and other com- munications from Mr. Cambridge , whom , if a beautiful villa on the banks of the Thames , a few miles diftant from London , a numerous * b 2 and and ...
... she had not been a Carthaginian . " I gratefully acknowledge this and other com- munications from Mr. Cambridge , whom , if a beautiful villa on the banks of the Thames , a few miles diftant from London , a numerous * b 2 and and ...
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... she came to those two lines , which exhibit at once a painful and ridiculous image , " For on the rope that hangs my Dear , 66 Depends poor Polly's life . " P. 378. 1. 23. for who , read - whom . P. 414. 1. 2. for Sevigé , read ...
... she came to those two lines , which exhibit at once a painful and ridiculous image , " For on the rope that hangs my Dear , 66 Depends poor Polly's life . " P. 378. 1. 23. for who , read - whom . P. 414. 1. 2. for Sevigé , read ...
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... then too late : Her vital power was exhaufted ; and fhe actually exhibited one of the very rare inftances of dying for love . She was buried in the cathedral of Lichfield ; and he + he , with a tender regard , placed a 14 THE LIFE OF.
... then too late : Her vital power was exhaufted ; and fhe actually exhibited one of the very rare inftances of dying for love . She was buried in the cathedral of Lichfield ; and he + he , with a tender regard , placed a 14 THE LIFE OF.
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... She departed this life 20 of September , 1694 . Johnson's mother was a woman of distinguished understanding . I asked his old school - fellow , Mr. Hector , furgeon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain of her fon . He faid , " fhe had ...
... She departed this life 20 of September , 1694 . Johnson's mother was a woman of distinguished understanding . I asked his old school - fellow , Mr. Hector , furgeon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain of her fon . He faid , " fhe had ...
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... She went up ftairs , leaving him to study it : But by the time she had reached the fecond floor , fhe heard him following her , " What's the matter ? " faid fhe . " I can fay it , " he replied ; and repeated it diftinctly , though he ...
... She went up ftairs , leaving him to study it : But by the time she had reached the fecond floor , fhe heard him following her , " What's the matter ? " faid fhe . " I can fay it , " he replied ; and repeated it diftinctly , though he ...
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