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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... thought ridiculously ostenta- tious . Let me only observe , as a specimen of my trouble , that I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date cor- rectly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew ...
... thought ridiculously ostenta- tious . Let me only observe , as a specimen of my trouble , that I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date cor- rectly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew ...
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... thought ! Long since I learn'd to slight this fleeting breath , And view with cheerful eyes approaching death , The inexorable sisters have decreed That Priam's house , and Priam's self shall bleed : The day will come , in which proud ...
... thought ! Long since I learn'd to slight this fleeting breath , And view with cheerful eyes approaching death , The inexorable sisters have decreed That Priam's house , and Priam's self shall bleed : The day will come , in which proud ...
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... thought idleness , and was scolded by his father for his want of steady appli- cation . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward at all , but merely lived from day to day . Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner ...
... thought idleness , and was scolded by his father for his want of steady appli- cation . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward at all , but merely lived from day to day . Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner ...
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... thought that he did himself injustice in his account of what he had read , and that he must have been speaking with reference to the vast portion of study which is possible , and to which few scholars in the whole history of literature ...
... thought that he did himself injustice in his account of what he had read , and that he must have been speaking with reference to the vast portion of study which is possible , and to which few scholars in the whole history of literature ...
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... thought that those who devote themselves to this employment , and do their duty with diligence and success , are entitled to very high respect from the community , as Johnson himself often maintained . Yet I am of opinion , that the ...
... thought that those who devote themselves to this employment , and do their duty with diligence and success , are entitled to very high respect from the community , as Johnson himself often maintained . Yet I am of opinion , that the ...
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