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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... pleased to favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my But I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. Malone , who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the work . whole of my ...
... pleased to favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my But I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. Malone , who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the work . whole of my ...
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... pleased to favour me with a speedy answer , if you are not willing to engage in this scheme ; and appoint me a day to wait upon you , if I am , Sir , you are . " Your humble servant , " SAMUEL JOHNSON . " It should seem from this letter ...
... pleased to favour me with a speedy answer , if you are not willing to engage in this scheme ; and appoint me a day to wait upon you , if I am , Sir , you are . " Your humble servant , " SAMUEL JOHNSON . " It should seem from this letter ...
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... pleased me to find amongst them one trait of the manners of the age in London , in the last century , to shield from the sneer of English ridicule , what was some time ago too common a practice in my native city of Edinburgh ! " If what ...
... pleased me to find amongst them one trait of the manners of the age in London , in the last century , to shield from the sneer of English ridicule , what was some time ago too common a practice in my native city of Edinburgh ! " If what ...
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... pleased to inform me by the penny - post , whether you resolve to print the poem . If you please to send it me by the post , with a note to Dodsley , I will go and read the lines to him , that we may have his consent to put his name in ...
... pleased to inform me by the penny - post , whether you resolve to print the poem . If you please to send it me by the post , with a note to Dodsley , I will go and read the lines to him , that we may have his consent to put his name in ...
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... pleased to visit St. John's Gate , and show particular marks of their being pleased . " + There is no reason , I believe , to doubt the veracity of Cave . It is , however , remarkable that none of these letters are in the years during ...
... pleased to visit St. John's Gate , and show particular marks of their being pleased . " + There is no reason , I believe , to doubt the veracity of Cave . It is , however , remarkable that none of these letters are in the years during ...
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