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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Page ii
... admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of converfation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hofpitality which has long made your house a common ...
... admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of converfation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hofpitality which has long made your house a common ...
Page ix
... admirable edition of Shakspeare , for which he generously would accept of no other reward but that fame which he has fo defervedly obtained , be fulfilled his promife of a long - wished - for vifit to his relations in Ireland ; from ...
... admirable edition of Shakspeare , for which he generously would accept of no other reward but that fame which he has fo defervedly obtained , be fulfilled his promife of a long - wished - for vifit to his relations in Ireland ; from ...
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... admirable talents as a politi- cal writer , thus defcribes the House of Commons , in his " Letter to Sir William Wyndham ; " - " You know the nature of that affembly ; they grow , like hounds , fond of the man who fhews ' them game ...
... admirable talents as a politi- cal writer , thus defcribes the House of Commons , in his " Letter to Sir William Wyndham ; " - " You know the nature of that affembly ; they grow , like hounds , fond of the man who fhews ' them game ...
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... , and repeated , with admirable readiness , from " Acis and Galatea , " " Bring me a hundred reeds of ample growth , " To make a pipe for my CAPACIOUS MOUTH . ” of of Aberdeen I should be a knitter of stockings . 22 THE LIFE OF.
... , and repeated , with admirable readiness , from " Acis and Galatea , " " Bring me a hundred reeds of ample growth , " To make a pipe for my CAPACIOUS MOUTH . ” of of Aberdeen I should be a knitter of stockings . 22 THE LIFE OF.
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... admirably adapted . The fancy took so much , that they were afterwards collected into a pamphlet . Somebody faid to Johnson , across the table , that he had not been in those characters . " Yes ( faid he ) I have . I should have been ...
... admirably adapted . The fancy took so much , that they were afterwards collected into a pamphlet . Somebody faid to Johnson , across the table , that he had not been in those characters . " Yes ( faid he ) I have . I should have been ...
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