The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprising a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons ...Routledge, 1867 - 526 pages |
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... English Poets " 268 . 278 CHAP . XXXII . 1777.-Dr. Johnson's Agreement to write " The Lives of the English Poets " -Dilly , the Bookseller - Charles O'Connor - Bishop Pearce Prologue to Kelly's Comedy - Savage's Tragedy of " Sir Thomas ...
... English Poets " 268 . 278 CHAP . XXXII . 1777.-Dr. Johnson's Agreement to write " The Lives of the English Poets " -Dilly , the Bookseller - Charles O'Connor - Bishop Pearce Prologue to Kelly's Comedy - Savage's Tragedy of " Sir Thomas ...
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... English Bar- Chief Justice Hale 467 CHAP . LVI . 1784. - Johnson's Return to London- Rev. Mr. Astle - Mr . Cator - Horace Walpole- " Ever - memorable " John Hales- " No , Sir " -Lord Chatham - Burke's Defence of Johnson- " Tommy ...
... English Bar- Chief Justice Hale 467 CHAP . LVI . 1784. - Johnson's Return to London- Rev. Mr. Astle - Mr . Cator - Horace Walpole- " Ever - memorable " John Hales- " No , Sir " -Lord Chatham - Burke's Defence of Johnson- " Tommy ...
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... English by Dame Oliver , a widow , who kept a school for young children in Lichfield . He told me she could read the black letter , and asked him to borrow for her , from his father , a Bible in that character . When he was going to ...
... English by Dame Oliver , a widow , who kept a school for young children in Lichfield . He told me she could read the black letter , and asked him to borrow for her , from his father , a Bible in that character . When he was going to ...
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... English translation , by the same author . " Class II . Learns Eutropius and Cornelius Nepos , or Justin , with the translation . N.B. The first class gets for their part every morning the rules which they have learned before , and in ...
... English translation , by the same author . " Class II . Learns Eutropius and Cornelius Nepos , or Justin , with the translation . N.B. The first class gets for their part every morning the rules which they have learned before , and in ...
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... English , it must be rembered , that there was the same objection against Le Courayer's under- taking , with this disadvantage , that the French had a version by one of their best translators , whereas you cannot read three pages of the ...
... English , it must be rembered , that there was the same objection against Le Courayer's under- taking , with this disadvantage , that the French had a version by one of their best translators , whereas you cannot read three pages of the ...
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