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 VolumesHenry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... She is a very fine woman . But how can you show civilities to a non - entity ? I did not think he had been married . Nay , I did not think about it one way or other ; but he did not tell us of his lady till late . " He then fpoke of St ...
... She is a very fine woman . But how can you show civilities to a non - entity ? I did not think he had been married . Nay , I did not think about it one way or other ; but he did not tell us of his lady till late . " He then fpoke of St ...
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... she stopped at the feventh act of correction , her daughter , fays he , would have been ruined , The degrees of obftinacy in young minds , are very different ; as different must be the degrees of per- fevering feverity . A ftubborn ...
... she stopped at the feventh act of correction , her daughter , fays he , would have been ruined , The degrees of obftinacy in young minds , are very different ; as different must be the degrees of per- fevering feverity . A ftubborn ...
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... She pretends to relate it from recollection , as if the herself had been prefent ; when the fact is that it was communicated to her by me . She has represented it as a perfonality , and the true point has escaped her . abused . L 1772 ...
... She pretends to relate it from recollection , as if the herself had been prefent ; when the fact is that it was communicated to her by me . She has represented it as a perfonality , and the true point has escaped her . abused . L 1772 ...
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... She ! and fuch stuff . " I could not agree with him in this criticism ; for though Sir John Dalrymple's ftyle is not regularly formed in any refpect , and one cannot help smiling fometimes at his affected grandiloquence , there is in ...
... She ! and fuch stuff . " I could not agree with him in this criticism ; for though Sir John Dalrymple's ftyle is not regularly formed in any refpect , and one cannot help smiling fometimes at his affected grandiloquence , there is in ...
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... She ftoops to conquer * . ” Etat . 64 . Johnfon obferved , that there were very few books printed in Scotland before the Union . He had feen a complete collection of them in the pof- feffion of the Honourable Archibald Campbell , a non ...
... She ftoops to conquer * . ” Etat . 64 . Johnfon obferved , that there were very few books printed in Scotland before the Union . He had feen a complete collection of them in the pof- feffion of the Honourable Archibald Campbell , a non ...
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