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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... given you by means of fomething which you know : and as to musick , there are some philofophers and divines who have maintained that we shall not be spiritual- ized to fuch a degree , but that fomething of matter , very much refined ...
... given you by means of fomething which you know : and as to musick , there are some philofophers and divines who have maintained that we shall not be spiritual- ized to fuch a degree , but that fomething of matter , very much refined ...
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... given me to read . JOHNSON . " Sir , Mr. Elwal was , I think , an ironmonger at Wolverhampton : and he had a mind to make him- felf famous , by being the founder of a new sect , which he wished much fhould be called Elwallians . He held ...
... given me to read . JOHNSON . " Sir , Mr. Elwal was , I think , an ironmonger at Wolverhampton : and he had a mind to make him- felf famous , by being the founder of a new sect , which he wished much fhould be called Elwallians . He held ...
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... given my opinion of Fielding ; but I cannot re- frain from repeating here my wonder at Johnson's exceffive and unaccountable depreciation of one of the best writers that England has produced . " Tom Jones " has stood the test of publick ...
... given my opinion of Fielding ; but I cannot re- frain from repeating here my wonder at Johnson's exceffive and unaccountable depreciation of one of the best writers that England has produced . " Tom Jones " has stood the test of publick ...
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... given . an erroneous account of this incident , as of many others . 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 ...
... given . an erroneous account of this incident , as of many others . 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 ...
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... Mrs. Piozzi , to whom I told this anecdote , has related it , as if the gentleman had given “ the natural history of the mouse . ” Anecdotes , p . 191 , E 2 have 1772 . Etat . 63 . 1772 . Etat . 63 . have written in order DR . JOHNSON . 51.
... Mrs. Piozzi , to whom I told this anecdote , has related it , as if the gentleman had given “ the natural history of the mouse . ” Anecdotes , p . 191 , E 2 have 1772 . Etat . 63 . 1772 . Etat . 63 . have written in order DR . JOHNSON . 51.
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