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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... perhaps , hard as it may be , I shall not be sur- prised if omissions or mistakes be pointed out with invidious severity . I have also been ex- tremely careful as to the exactness of my quota- tions ; holding that there is a respect due ...
... perhaps , hard as it may be , I shall not be sur- prised if omissions or mistakes be pointed out with invidious severity . I have also been ex- tremely careful as to the exactness of my quota- tions ; holding that there is a respect due ...
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... perhaps have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem ; and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead . " Clarges - street , Feb. 19 , 1806 , in her eighty - ninth year.- MALONE ...
... perhaps have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem ; and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead . " Clarges - street , Feb. 19 , 1806 , in her eighty - ninth year.- MALONE ...
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... perhaps , no small disappointment to Johnson that this.respectable application had not the desired effect ; yet how much reason has there been , both for himself and his country , to rejoice that it did not succeed , as he might ...
... perhaps , no small disappointment to Johnson that this.respectable application had not the desired effect ; yet how much reason has there been , both for himself and his country , to rejoice that it did not succeed , as he might ...
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... perhaps , gratify the lovers of truth and wit , by giving me leave to inform them in your Magazine , that my account will be published in 8vo . by Mr. Roberts , in Warwick - lane . " [ No signature . ] fancied superiority of one ...
... perhaps , gratify the lovers of truth and wit , by giving me leave to inform them in your Magazine , that my account will be published in 8vo . by Mr. Roberts , in Warwick - lane . " [ No signature . ] fancied superiority of one ...
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... perhaps he laid aside for a time , on account of the high ex- pectations which were formed of Warburton's edition of that great poet . It is somewhat curious , that his literary career appears to have been almost totally suspended in ...
... perhaps he laid aside for a time , on account of the high ex- pectations which were formed of Warburton's edition of that great poet . It is somewhat curious , that his literary career appears to have been almost totally suspended in ...
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