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: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Three VolumesHenry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... Johnson's character , so as to understand his mode of treating his friends , have arraigned my judgement , instead of seeing that I was fenfible of all that they could observe . It is related of the great Dr. Clarke , that when in one ...
... Johnson's character , so as to understand his mode of treating his friends , have arraigned my judgement , instead of seeing that I was fenfible of all that they could observe . It is related of the great Dr. Clarke , that when in one ...
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... Johnson's authority that in history all ought to be told . " Such a fanction to my faculty of giving juft reprefentation of Dr. Johnfon I could not conceal . Nor will I fupprefs my fatisfaction in the consciousness , that by recording ...
... Johnson's authority that in history all ought to be told . " Such a fanction to my faculty of giving juft reprefentation of Dr. Johnfon I could not conceal . Nor will I fupprefs my fatisfaction in the consciousness , that by recording ...
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... Johnson's kindness for obtaining for him many alleviations of his dif- trefs . After he went away , Johnson blamed his folly in quitting the stage , by which he and his wife got five hundred pounds a year . I said , I believed it was ...
... Johnson's kindness for obtaining for him many alleviations of his dif- trefs . After he went away , Johnson blamed his folly in quitting the stage , by which he and his wife got five hundred pounds a year . I said , I believed it was ...
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... Johnson ; yet he certainly was very shy of saying any thing in Dr. Johnson's prefence . " Mr. Scott now quoted what was faid of Alcibiades by a Greek poet , to which Johnson affented . He told us , that he had given Mrs. Montagu a ...
... Johnson ; yet he certainly was very shy of saying any thing in Dr. Johnson's prefence . " Mr. Scott now quoted what was faid of Alcibiades by a Greek poet , to which Johnson affented . He told us , that he had given Mrs. Montagu a ...
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... Johnson's prefence , to imitate the ftately periods Atat . 69 . and flow and folemn utterance of the great man . I this evening boafted , that although I did not write what is called ' ftenography , or fhort - hand , in appropriated ...
... Johnson's prefence , to imitate the ftately periods Atat . 69 . and flow and folemn utterance of the great man . I this evening boafted , that although I did not write what is called ' ftenography , or fhort - hand , in appropriated ...
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