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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... last paffage is worked up in the tragedy it- felf , as follows : LEONTIU S. That power that kindly spreads " The clouds , a fignal of impending showers , " To warn the wand'ring linnet to the shade , " Beheld , without concern ...
... last paffage is worked up in the tragedy it- felf , as follows : LEONTIU S. That power that kindly spreads " The clouds , a fignal of impending showers , " To warn the wand'ring linnet to the shade , " Beheld , without concern ...
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... last age , when my mother lived in London , there were two fets of people , those who gave the wall , and those who took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelfome . When I returned to Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother ...
... last age , when my mother lived in London , there were two fets of people , those who gave the wall , and those who took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelfome . When I returned to Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother ...
Page 96
... last century , to fhield from the fneer of English ridicule , what was fome time ago too common a practice in my native city of Edinburgh : " If what I've faid can't from the town afright , Confider other dangers of the night ; " When ...
... last century , to fhield from the fneer of English ridicule , what was fome time ago too common a practice in my native city of Edinburgh : " If what I've faid can't from the town afright , Confider other dangers of the night ; " When ...
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... last night if there had been time ; for I think it the most proper way of inviting fuch a correspondence as may be an advantage to the paper , not a load upon it . 8 They afterwards appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine with this title ...
... last night if there had been time ; for I think it the most proper way of inviting fuch a correspondence as may be an advantage to the paper , not a load upon it . 8 They afterwards appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine with this title ...
Page 116
... last quoted let- ter to Mr. Cave concludes with a fair confeffion that he had not a dinner ; and it is no lefs remark- able , that , though in this ftate of want himself , his benevolent heart was not infenfible to the necef- fities of ...
... last quoted let- ter to Mr. Cave concludes with a fair confeffion that he had not a dinner ; and it is no lefs remark- able , that , though in this ftate of want himself , his benevolent heart was not infenfible to the necef- fities of ...
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