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 5J. Richardson, 1821 |
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... 66 TO BENNET LANGTON , ESQ . 66 DEAR SIR , " How welcome your account of yourself and your invitation to your new house was to me , I need not tell you , who consider our friendship not only as formed by choice , but as matured by time ...
... 66 TO BENNET LANGTON , ESQ . 66 DEAR SIR , " How welcome your account of yourself and your invitation to your new house was to me , I need not tell you , who consider our friendship not only as formed by choice , but as matured by time ...
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... dear sir , " Your obliged and most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " " June 23 , 1781. " " SIR , 66 TO THOMAS ASTLE , ESQ . " I AM ashamed that you have been forced to call so often for your books , but it has been by no fault on ...
... dear sir , " Your obliged and most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " " June 23 , 1781. " " SIR , 66 TO THOMAS ASTLE , ESQ . " I AM ashamed that you have been forced to call so often for your books , but it has been by no fault on ...
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... DEAR SIR , " I SIT down to answer your letter on the same day in which I received it , and am pleased that my first ... 66 My health has been tottering this last year : and I can give no very laudable account of my time . I am always hoping ...
... DEAR SIR , " I SIT down to answer your letter on the same day in which I received it , and am pleased that my first ... 66 My health has been tottering this last year : and I can give no very laudable account of my time . I am always hoping ...
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... 66 DEAR MADAM , " MRS . WILLIAMS shewed me your kind letter . This little habitation is now but a melancholy place , clouded with the gloom of disease and death . Of the four inmates , one has been suddenly snatched away ; two are ...
... 66 DEAR MADAM , " MRS . WILLIAMS shewed me your kind letter . This little habitation is now but a melancholy place , clouded with the gloom of disease and death . Of the four inmates , one has been suddenly snatched away ; two are ...
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... Mr. Malone , who has so ably suc- ceeded him as an Editor of Shakspeare , has , in his Preface , done great and just honour to Johnson's memory . " TO MRS . LUCY PORTER , IN LICHFIELD . 66 DEAR MADAM , " I WENT away from Lichfield ill ...
... Mr. Malone , who has so ably suc- ceeded him as an Editor of Shakspeare , has , in his Preface , done great and just honour to Johnson's memory . " TO MRS . LUCY PORTER , IN LICHFIELD . 66 DEAR MADAM , " I WENT away from Lichfield ill ...
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