“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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... remarks is so great , that perhaps no degree of attention or discernment will be sufficient to afford it . " Come home , however , and take your chance . I long to see you , and to hear you ; and hope that we shall not be so long ...
... remarks is so great , that perhaps no degree of attention or discernment will be sufficient to afford it . " Come home , however , and take your chance . I long to see you , and to hear you ; and hope that we shall not be so long ...
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... remark made by Mr. Wilkes , with whom I had spent many pleasant hours in Italy , Johnson said , sarcastically , " It seems , sir , you have kept very good company abroad , Rousseau and Wilkes ! Thinking it enough to de- fend one at a ...
... remark made by Mr. Wilkes , with whom I had spent many pleasant hours in Italy , Johnson said , sarcastically , " It seems , sir , you have kept very good company abroad , Rousseau and Wilkes ! Thinking it enough to de- fend one at a ...
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... remark : " Dr. Johnson has alluded to the worthy man employed in the trans- lation of the New Testament . Might not this have afforded you an opportunity of paying a proper tribute of respect to the memory of the Rev. Mr. James Stuart ...
... remark : " Dr. Johnson has alluded to the worthy man employed in the trans- lation of the New Testament . Might not this have afforded you an opportunity of paying a proper tribute of respect to the memory of the Rev. Mr. James Stuart ...
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... remark . " What , Sir , " said he , " talk thus of a man of liberal education - a man who for years was at the University of Oxford - a man who has added sixteen new characters to the English drama of his country ! " — BOSWELL . then ...
... remark . " What , Sir , " said he , " talk thus of a man of liberal education - a man who for years was at the University of Oxford - a man who has added sixteen new characters to the English drama of his country ! " — BOSWELL . then ...
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... remark , that when upon any occasion Johnson 1 Johnson himself has vindicated Blackmore upon this very point . See " The Lives of the Poets , " vol . iii . , p . 75 , Svo , 1791.-J. BOSWELL , JUN . 2 An acute correspondent of " The ...
... remark , that when upon any occasion Johnson 1 Johnson himself has vindicated Blackmore upon this very point . See " The Lives of the Poets , " vol . iii . , p . 75 , Svo , 1791.-J. BOSWELL , JUN . 2 An acute correspondent of " The ...
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