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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... Lady's Verses on Ireland - Goldsmith's Copy . right - Johnson's " Historia Studiorum " -Edward Cave - Avarice - Bon - mots - Egotism · • 344 CHAP . XL . 1778. - Mauritius Lowe , the Artist- Whigs and Tories - Cowards - Wine - drinking ...
... Lady's Verses on Ireland - Goldsmith's Copy . right - Johnson's " Historia Studiorum " -Edward Cave - Avarice - Bon - mots - Egotism · • 344 CHAP . XL . 1778. - Mauritius Lowe , the Artist- Whigs and Tories - Cowards - Wine - drinking ...
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... lady who once lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the ...
... lady who once lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the ...
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... ladies with whom he was acquainted agree , that no man was more nicely and minutely critical in the elegance of female ... lady in diamonds , and a long black hood . " This touch , however , was without any effect . I ventured to say to ...
... ladies with whom he was acquainted agree , that no man was more nicely and minutely critical in the elegance of female ... lady in diamonds , and a long black hood . " This touch , however , was without any effect . I ventured to say to ...
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... LADY on her BIRTHDAY . " THIS tributary verse receive , my fair , Warm with an ardent lover's fondest prayer . May this returning day for ever find Thy form more lovely , more adorn'd thy mind ; All pains , all cares , may favouring ...
... LADY on her BIRTHDAY . " THIS tributary verse receive , my fair , Warm with an ardent lover's fondest prayer . May this returning day for ever find Thy form more lovely , more adorn'd thy mind ; All pains , all cares , may favouring ...
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... lady , who , in a paper with which I have been favoured by a daughter of his intimate friend and physician , Dr. Lawrence , thus describes Dr. Johnson some years afterwards : - " As the particulars of the former part of Dr. Johnson's ...
... lady , who , in a paper with which I have been favoured by a daughter of his intimate friend and physician , Dr. Lawrence , thus describes Dr. Johnson some years afterwards : - " As the particulars of the former part of Dr. Johnson's ...
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