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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... true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ingenious ; all these ...
... true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ingenious ; all these ...
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... true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind approbation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the head of a college , as a writer , and as a most amiable man , had known ...
... true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of his kind approbation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the head of a college , as a writer , and as a most amiable man , had known ...
Page xiv
... true and fair delineation , John Hawkins was alive ; and I avow , that one object of my strictures was to make him feel some compunction for his illiberal treatment of Dr. Johnson . Since his decease I have suppressed several of my ...
... true and fair delineation , John Hawkins was alive ; and I avow , that one object of my strictures was to make him feel some compunction for his illiberal treatment of Dr. Johnson . Since his decease I have suppressed several of my ...
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... true or not , is at least probable ; and he who tells nothing exceeding the bounds of probability , has a right to demand that they should believe him who cannot contradict him . " He appears by his modest and unaffected narration , to ...
... true or not , is at least probable ; and he who tells nothing exceeding the bounds of probability , has a right to demand that they should believe him who cannot contradict him . " He appears by his modest and unaffected narration , to ...
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... true born Englishman " not only against foreign countries , but against Ire- land and Scotland . On some of these topics I 66 One of the warmest patrons of this poem on its first appearance was General Oglethorpe , whose strong ...
... true born Englishman " not only against foreign countries , but against Ire- land and Scotland . On some of these topics I 66 One of the warmest patrons of this poem on its first appearance was General Oglethorpe , whose strong ...
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