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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... doubt I should not have animadversions upon a writer who has greatly injured been very prompt to gratify Sir John Hawkins with any compliment in his lifetime , I do now frankly acknowledge , that , in my opinion his volume , however ...
... doubt I should not have animadversions upon a writer who has greatly injured been very prompt to gratify Sir John Hawkins with any compliment in his lifetime , I do now frankly acknowledge , that , in my opinion his volume , however ...
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... doubt ; for there is no in- stance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly unwise to ...
... doubt ; for there is no in- stance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly unwise to ...
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... doubt , from a proper pride . But , considering his ascetic disposition at times , as acknowledged by himself in his " Meditations , ' and the exaggeration with which some have treated the peculiarities of his character , I should not ...
... doubt , from a proper pride . But , considering his ascetic disposition at times , as acknowledged by himself in his " Meditations , ' and the exaggeration with which some have treated the peculiarities of his character , I should not ...
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... doubt the authen- ticity of this account , by the following circumstantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward , of Lich- field : " I know those verses were addressed to Lucy Porter , when he was enamoured of her in his boyish ...
... doubt the authen- ticity of this account , by the following circumstantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward , of Lich- field : " I know those verses were addressed to Lucy Porter , when he was enamoured of her in his boyish ...
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... doubt that Johnson , though he thus showed a manly firmness , proved a most affectionate and indulgent husband to the last moments of Mrs. Johnson's life and in his " Prayers and Medi- tations , " we find very remarkable evidence that ...
... doubt that Johnson , though he thus showed a manly firmness , proved a most affectionate and indulgent husband to the last moments of Mrs. Johnson's life and in his " Prayers and Medi- tations , " we find very remarkable evidence that ...
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