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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... sir , " Your most humble servant , " May 10 , 1774. " " SAM . JOHNSON . " 66 MR . BOSWELL TO DR . JOHNSON . " Edinburgh , May 12 , 1774 . His " LORD HAILES has begged of me to offer you his best respects , and to transmit to you ...
... sir , " Your most humble servant , " May 10 , 1774. " " SAM . JOHNSON . " 66 MR . BOSWELL TO DR . JOHNSON . " Edinburgh , May 12 , 1774 . His " LORD HAILES has begged of me to offer you his best respects , and to transmit to you ...
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... Lord Hailes otherwise than with high re- spect . I return the sheets , to which I have done what mischief I could ; and finding it so little , thought ry . 1 Dr. Goldsmith died April 4 , this year . 2 These books Dr. Johnson presented ...
... Lord Hailes otherwise than with high re- spect . I return the sheets , to which I have done what mischief I could ; and finding it so little , thought ry . 1 Dr. Goldsmith died April 4 , this year . 2 These books Dr. Johnson presented ...
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... Lord Hailes than by neglect- ing his sheets : I have run him in debt . Dr. Horne , the President of Magdalen College in Oxford , wrote to me about three months ago , that he purposed to re- print Walton's Lives , and desired me to ...
... Lord Hailes than by neglect- ing his sheets : I have run him in debt . Dr. Horne , the President of Magdalen College in Oxford , wrote to me about three months ago , that he purposed to re- print Walton's Lives , and desired me to ...
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... Lord Hailes ' Annals of Scotland ' are excellent . I agreed with you on every one of them . He himself objected only ... Lord Hailes writes to me thus : Mr. Boswell will be pleas- ed to express the grateful sense which Sir David Dal- 6 ...
... Lord Hailes ' Annals of Scotland ' are excellent . I agreed with you on every one of them . He himself objected only ... Lord Hailes writes to me thus : Mr. Boswell will be pleas- ed to express the grateful sense which Sir David Dal- 6 ...
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... Lord Hailes had it in view . I remember one morning , while he sat with you in my house , he said , that there should be a new edi- tion of Walton's Lives ; and you said that they should be noted a little . ' This was all that passed on ...
... Lord Hailes had it in view . I remember one morning , while he sat with you in my house , he said , that there should be a new edi- tion of Walton's Lives ; and you said that they should be noted a little . ' This was all that passed on ...
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