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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... late . " He then fpoke of St. Kilda , the most remote of the Hebrides . I told him , I thought of buying it . JOHNSON . " Pray do , Sir . We fhall go and pass a winter amid the blafts there . We fhall have fine fish , and we shall take ...
... late . " He then fpoke of St. Kilda , the most remote of the Hebrides . I told him , I thought of buying it . JOHNSON . " Pray do , Sir . We fhall go and pass a winter amid the blafts there . We fhall have fine fish , and we shall take ...
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... late Mr. Love , of Drury - lane theatre , when he was a player at Edinburgh , and alfo of old Mr. Sheridan . Johnson faid to me , " Sir , your pronunciation is not offenfive . " With this conceffion I was pretty well fatisfied ; and let ...
... late Mr. Love , of Drury - lane theatre , when he was a player at Edinburgh , and alfo of old Mr. Sheridan . Johnson faid to me , " Sir , your pronunciation is not offenfive . " With this conceffion I was pretty well fatisfied ; and let ...
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... late Sir Gilbert Elliot ; and may I prefume to add that of the present Earl of Marchmont , who told me , with great good humour , that the master of a shop in London , where he was not known , faid to him , " I suppose , Sir , you are ...
... late Sir Gilbert Elliot ; and may I prefume to add that of the present Earl of Marchmont , who told me , with great good humour , that the master of a shop in London , where he was not known , faid to him , " I suppose , Sir , you are ...
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... late , which he would not do if he had not candles ; but nobody will deny that the art of making can- dles , by which light is continued to us beyond the time that the fun gives us light , is a valuable art , and ought to be preferved ...
... late , which he would not do if he had not candles ; but nobody will deny that the art of making can- dles , by which light is continued to us beyond the time that the fun gives us light , is a valuable art , and ought to be preferved ...
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... late turned my thoughts with . a very useless earneftnefs upon paft incidents . I have yet got no command over my thoughts ; an unpleafing incident is almoft certain to hinder my reft . " What philofophick heroifm was it in him to ...
... late turned my thoughts with . a very useless earneftnefs upon paft incidents . I have yet got no command over my thoughts ; an unpleafing incident is almoft certain to hinder my reft . " What philofophick heroifm was it in him to ...
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