The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Priv. print. for the Navarre society limited, 1924 |
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... " * I have largely provided for the instruction and entertainment of mankind . LONDON , April 20 , 1791 . * See Mr Malone's Preface to his edition of Shakspeare . INTRODUCTION O write the life of him who excelled all xi ADVERTISEMENT.
... " * I have largely provided for the instruction and entertainment of mankind . LONDON , April 20 , 1791 . * See Mr Malone's Preface to his edition of Shakspeare . INTRODUCTION O write the life of him who excelled all xi ADVERTISEMENT.
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James Boswell Clement King Shorter. INTRODUCTION O write the life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endowments or his various works , has been equalled by few ...
James Boswell Clement King Shorter. INTRODUCTION O write the life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endowments or his various works , has been equalled by few ...
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... writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr Johnson have been published , the most ... writer who has greatly injured him . Let me add , that though I doubt I should not have been very prompt to gratify Sir ...
... writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr Johnson have been published , the most ... writer who has greatly injured him . Let me add , that though I doubt I should not have been very prompt to gratify Sir ...
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... write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux , are indeed strange insipid creatures ; and yet I had rather read the worst of them , than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the ...
... write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux , are indeed strange insipid creatures ; and yet I had rather read the worst of them , than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the ...
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... writing any man's life , than not only relating all the most important events of it in their order , but interweaving what he privately wrote , and said , and thought ; by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live , and to ...
... writing any man's life , than not only relating all the most important events of it in their order , but interweaving what he privately wrote , and said , and thought ; by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live , and to ...
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