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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... never had persevering diligence enough to form them into a regular composition . Of these memorials a few have been preserved ; but the greater part was consigned by him to the flames , a few days before his death . As I had the honour ...
... never had persevering diligence enough to form them into a regular composition . Of these memorials a few have been preserved ; but the greater part was consigned by him to the flames , a few days before his death . As I had the honour ...
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... never had trade sufficient to enable him to pay them , and to maintain his family ; he got something , but not enough . It was not till about 1768 , that I thought to calculate the returns of my father's trade , and , by that estimate ...
... never had trade sufficient to enable him to pay them , and to maintain his family ; he got something , but not enough . It was not till about 1768 , that I thought to calculate the returns of my father's trade , and , by that estimate ...
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... never knew him corrected at school , but for talking and diverting other boys from their business . He seemed to ... never thought to raise me by com- paring me to any one ; they never said Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ...
... never knew him corrected at school , but for talking and diverting other boys from their business . He seemed to ... never thought to raise me by com- paring me to any one ; they never said Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ...
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... never would have taken place , had not a gentle- man of Shropshire , one of his schoolfellows , spon- taneously undertaken to support him at Oxford , in the character of his companion : though , in fact , he never received any ...
... never would have taken place , had not a gentle- man of Shropshire , one of his schoolfellows , spon- taneously undertaken to support him at Oxford , in the character of his companion : though , in fact , he never received any ...
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... never wrote any of his works that were printed , twice over . Dr. Burney's wonder at seeing several pages of his " Lives of the Poets , " in manuscript , with scarce a blot or erasure , drew this observation from hin ..- MALONE . from ...
... never wrote any of his works that were printed , twice over . Dr. Burney's wonder at seeing several pages of his " Lives of the Poets , " in manuscript , with scarce a blot or erasure , drew this observation from hin ..- MALONE . from ...
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