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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... excellent biographer . His contributions to my collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind approbation . Dr ...
... excellent biographer . His contributions to my collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind approbation . Dr ...
Page xv
... excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is necessary to explain , con- nect , and supply , I furnish it to the best of my abilities ; but in the chronological series of John- son's life , which I trace ...
... excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is necessary to explain , con- nect , and supply , I furnish it to the best of my abilities ; but in the chronological series of John- son's life , which I trace ...
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... excellent master , and that his ushers were most of them men of eminence ; that Holbrook , one of the most ingenious men , best scholars , and best preachers of his age , was usher during the greatest part of the time that Johnson was ...
... excellent master , and that his ushers were most of them men of eminence ; that Holbrook , one of the most ingenious men , best scholars , and best preachers of his age , was usher during the greatest part of the time that Johnson was ...
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... excellent works were struck off at a heat , with rapid exertion . * No man had a more ardent love of literature , or a higher respect for it , than Johnson . His apartment in Pembroke College was that upon the second floor over the ...
... excellent works were struck off at a heat , with rapid exertion . * No man had a more ardent love of literature , or a higher respect for it , than Johnson . His apartment in Pembroke College was that upon the second floor over the ...
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... excellent , that Johnson used to come and get them at second - hand from Taylor , till his poverty being so extreme , that his shoes were worn out , and his feet appeared through thein , he saw that this humiliating cir- cumstance was ...
... excellent , that Johnson used to come and get them at second - hand from Taylor , till his poverty being so extreme , that his shoes were worn out , and his feet appeared through thein , he saw that this humiliating cir- cumstance was ...
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