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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... Thrale's at Streatham , to which place I wrote to him , begging to know when he would be in town . He was not expected for fome time ; but next day having called on Dr. Taylor , in Dean's - yard , Westminster , I found him there , and ...
... Thrale's at Streatham , to which place I wrote to him , begging to know when he would be in town . He was not expected for fome time ; but next day having called on Dr. Taylor , in Dean's - yard , Westminster , I found him there , and ...
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... Thrale's ; where , as Mr. Strahan once complained to me , " he was in a great measure abforbed from the fociety of his old friends . " I was kept in London by bufinefs , and wrote to him on the 27th , that a feparation from him for a ...
... Thrale's ; where , as Mr. Strahan once complained to me , " he was in a great measure abforbed from the fociety of his old friends . " I was kept in London by bufinefs , and wrote to him on the 27th , that a feparation from him for a ...
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... THRALE . I think you had as well let alone that publication . To discover fuch weakness exposes a man when he is gone . " JOHN- SON . " Nay , it is an honeft picture of human nature . How often are the primary motives of our greatest ...
... THRALE . I think you had as well let alone that publication . To discover fuch weakness exposes a man when he is gone . " JOHN- SON . " Nay , it is an honeft picture of human nature . How often are the primary motives of our greatest ...
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... Thrale's carriage not having come for him , as he expected , I accompanied him fome part of the way home to his own house . I told him , that I had talked of him to Mr. Dunning a few days before , and had faid , that in his company we ...
... Thrale's carriage not having come for him , as he expected , I accompanied him fome part of the way home to his own house . I told him , that I had talked of him to Mr. Dunning a few days before , and had faid , that in his company we ...
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... Thrale's at Streatham , to which I agreed . I had lent him " An Account of Scotland , in 1702 , " written by a man of various enquiry , an English chaplain to a regiment ftationed there . JOHNSON . " It is fad ftuff , Sir , miferably ...
... Thrale's at Streatham , to which I agreed . I had lent him " An Account of Scotland , in 1702 , " written by a man of various enquiry , an English chaplain to a regiment ftationed there . JOHNSON . " It is fad ftuff , Sir , miferably ...
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