“The” Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order, a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons, and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: ...G. Routledge & Company, Farringdon Street, 1857 - 300 pages |
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... difficult to keep among us a mind which has been so long feasted with variety . But let us try what esteem and kindness can effect . " As your father's liberality has indulged you with so 2 176 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... difficult to keep among us a mind which has been so long feasted with variety . But let us try what esteem and kindness can effect . " As your father's liberality has indulged you with so 2 176 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... effects as you mention , gives me great pleasure . I hope you do not flatter me by imputing to me more good than I have really done . Those whom my arguments have persuaded to change their opinion , show such modesty and candour as ...
... effects as you mention , gives me great pleasure . I hope you do not flatter me by imputing to me more good than I have really done . Those whom my arguments have persuaded to change their opinion , show such modesty and candour as ...
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... effect of effluvia from human bodies . Johnson , at another time , praised Macaulay , for his " magnanimity , " in asserting this wonderful story , because it was well attested . A lady of Norfolk , by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney ...
... effect of effluvia from human bodies . Johnson , at another time , praised Macaulay , for his " magnanimity , " in asserting this wonderful story , because it was well attested . A lady of Norfolk , by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney ...
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... effect on both . When almost every man of eminence in the literary world was happy to partake in this festival of genius , the absence of Johnson could not but be wondered at 1 " It has this inscription in a blank leaf : ' Hunc librum ...
... effect on both . When almost every man of eminence in the literary world was happy to partake in this festival of genius , the absence of Johnson could not but be wondered at 1 " It has this inscription in a blank leaf : ' Hunc librum ...
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... effects which a happy marriage will hardly fail to produce . " I do not find that I am likely to come back very soon from this place . I 1 In the Preface of my " Account of Corsica , " published in 1768 , I thus express myself : - " He ...
... effects which a happy marriage will hardly fail to produce . " I do not find that I am likely to come back very soon from this place . I 1 In the Preface of my " Account of Corsica , " published in 1768 , I thus express myself : - " He ...
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