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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... written , ex- cept fome foppery about liberty and flavery . I mentioned to him that Macaulay told me , he was advised to leave out of his book the wonderful story that upon the approach of a ftranger all the inhabitants catch cold ; but ...
... written , ex- cept fome foppery about liberty and flavery . I mentioned to him that Macaulay told me , he was advised to leave out of his book the wonderful story that upon the approach of a ftranger all the inhabitants catch cold ; but ...
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... written , but that he had poor materials ; for nobody can write the life of a man , but those who have eat and drunk and lived in fo- cial intercourse with him . " I faid , that if it was not troublesome and pre- fuming too much , I ...
... written , but that he had poor materials ; for nobody can write the life of a man , but those who have eat and drunk and lived in fo- cial intercourse with him . " I faid , that if it was not troublesome and pre- fuming too much , I ...
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... written fince the Rehearfal ; at leaft a paffage mentioned in the Preface is of a later date . " I maintained that it had merit as a general fatire on the felf - importance of dramatick This project has fince been realized . Sir Henry ...
... written fince the Rehearfal ; at leaft a paffage mentioned in the Preface is of a later date . " I maintained that it had merit as a general fatire on the felf - importance of dramatick This project has fince been realized . Sir Henry ...
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... written by Mr. Paterson , the auctioneer , was mentioned . Johnson faid , this book was an imitation of Sterne † , and not of Coriat , whose name Paterfon had chofen as a whim- fical one . " Tom Coriat , ( faid he , ) was a hu- mourist ...
... written by Mr. Paterson , the auctioneer , was mentioned . Johnson faid , this book was an imitation of Sterne † , and not of Coriat , whose name Paterfon had chofen as a whim- fical one . " Tom Coriat , ( faid he , ) was a hu- mourist ...
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... writing a natural hiftory , and , that he might have full leisure for it , he had taken lodgings , at a far- mer's houfe , near to the fix mile - ftone , on the Edgeware - road , and had carried down his books in two returned poft ...
... writing a natural hiftory , and , that he might have full leisure for it , he had taken lodgings , at a far- mer's houfe , near to the fix mile - ftone , on the Edgeware - road , and had carried down his books in two returned poft ...
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