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, Volume 3C. Ewer & T. Bedlington, 1824 |
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... Italian and English . " " DEAR SIR , " TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " You never did ask for a book by the post till and I did not think on it . You see now it is done . I sent one to the King , and I hear he likes it . now , " I shall send ...
... Italian and English . " " DEAR SIR , " TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " You never did ask for a book by the post till and I did not think on it . You see now it is done . I sent one to the King , and I hear he likes it . now , " I shall send ...
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... Italy . " JOHNSON . " I should not have wished to be dead to disappoint Campbell , had he been so foolish as you represent him ; but I should have wished to have been a hundred miles off . " This was apparently per- verse ; and I do ...
... Italy . " JOHNSON . " I should not have wished to be dead to disappoint Campbell , had he been so foolish as you represent him ; but I should have wished to have been a hundred miles off . " This was apparently per- verse ; and I do ...
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... Italian author . " JOHNSON . " Why , sir , all who go to look for what the Classicks have said of • I [ Speaking of Addison's Remarks on Italy in " The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , " ( p . 320 , 3d edit . ) he says , " it is a ...
... Italian author . " JOHNSON . " Why , sir , all who go to look for what the Classicks have said of • I [ Speaking of Addison's Remarks on Italy in " The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , " ( p . 320 , 3d edit . ) he says , " it is a ...
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... Italy , must find the same passages ; and I should think it would be one of the first things the Italians would do on the revival of learning , to collect all that the Ro- man authors have said of their country . " Ossian being ...
... Italy , must find the same passages ; and I should think it would be one of the first things the Italians would do on the revival of learning , to collect all that the Ro- man authors have said of their country . " Ossian being ...
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... it ; but of my company you cannot in the next month have much , 1 A letter to him on the interesting subject of the family set- tlement , which I had read . for Mr. Thrale will take me to Italy , he Etat . 67. ] 129 DR . JOHNSON .
... it ; but of my company you cannot in the next month have much , 1 A letter to him on the interesting subject of the family set- tlement , which I had read . for Mr. Thrale will take me to Italy , he Etat . 67. ] 129 DR . JOHNSON .
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