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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... sure you will find no pleasure here which can deserve either that you should anticipate any part of your future fortune , or that you should condemn yourself and your lady to penurious frugality for the rest of the year . " I need not ...
... sure you will find no pleasure here which can deserve either that you should anticipate any part of your future fortune , or that you should condemn yourself and your lady to penurious frugality for the rest of the year . " I need not ...
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... sure you were a man of a good heart , and a candid man , and seemed to hope he should be able to convince you of the antiquity of a good proportion of the poems of Ossian . After all that has passed , I think the matter is capable of ...
... sure you were a man of a good heart , and a candid man , and seemed to hope he should be able to convince you of the antiquity of a good proportion of the poems of Ossian . After all that has passed , I think the matter is capable of ...
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... sure , one of them which was shewn to me does appear to have the duskyness of antiquity . * * * * * * " The inquiry is not yet quite hopeless , and I should think that the exact truth may be discovered , if proper means be used . I am ...
... sure , one of them which was shewn to me does appear to have the duskyness of antiquity . * * * * * * " The inquiry is not yet quite hopeless , and I should think that the exact truth may be discovered , if proper means be used . I am ...
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... sure he was committing perjury , whereas a Nonjuror might be insensibly led to do what was wrong , without being so directly conscious of it . " JOHNSON . 66 Why , sir , a man who goes to bed to his patron's wife is pretty sure that he ...
... sure he was committing perjury , whereas a Nonjuror might be insensibly led to do what was wrong , without being so directly conscious of it . " JOHNSON . 66 Why , sir , a man who goes to bed to his patron's wife is pretty sure that he ...
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... sure , wonderfully free from that nationality but so it happens , that you employ the only Scotch shoe - black in London . " He imitated the manner of his old master with ludicrous exaggera- tion ; repeating , with pauses , and half ...
... sure , wonderfully free from that nationality but so it happens , that you employ the only Scotch shoe - black in London . " He imitated the manner of his old master with ludicrous exaggera- tion ; repeating , with pauses , and half ...
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