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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... Writes to Johnson - His Answer , containing Advice for Study - Visit to the Langton Family , in Lincolnshire - Institution of the Lite- rary Club - Miscellaneous Writings - Various Pecu liarities of Johnson - Visit to Cambridge ...
... Writes to Johnson - His Answer , containing Advice for Study - Visit to the Langton Family , in Lincolnshire - Institution of the Lite- rary Club - Miscellaneous Writings - Various Pecu liarities of Johnson - Visit to Cambridge ...
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... write " The Lives of the English Poets " -Dilly , the Bookseller - Charles O'Connor - Bishop Pearce Prologue to ... Writing- " Biographia Britannica❞— Melancholy and Madness - London Society - Bos- well's Ancestor , Lord Douglas - The ...
... write " The Lives of the English Poets " -Dilly , the Bookseller - Charles O'Connor - Bishop Pearce Prologue to ... Writing- " Biographia Britannica❞— Melancholy and Madness - London Society - Bos- well's Ancestor , Lord Douglas - The ...
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... write the Life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endow- ments , or his various works , has been equalled by few in any age , is an arduous , and may be ...
... write the Life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endow- ments , or his various works , has been equalled by few in any age , is an arduous , and may be ...
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... write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux are indeed strange in- sipid creatures ; and yet I had rather read the worst of them , than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the ...
... write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux are indeed strange in- sipid creatures ; and yet I had rather read the worst of them , than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the ...
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... write a play on the subject of Charles the Twelfth , of Sweden , and to have it ready for the ensuing winter . The passage alluded to , however , is somewhat ambiguous , and the work which he then had in contemplation may have been a ...
... write a play on the subject of Charles the Twelfth , of Sweden , and to have it ready for the ensuing winter . The passage alluded to , however , is somewhat ambiguous , and the work which he then had in contemplation may have been a ...
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