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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... allowed to fuggeft , that the nature of the work , in other refpects , as it confifts of innu- merable detached particulars , all which , even the most minute , I have spared no pains to afcertain with a fcrupulous authenticity , has ...
... allowed to fuggeft , that the nature of the work , in other refpects , as it confifts of innu- merable detached particulars , all which , even the most minute , I have spared no pains to afcertain with a fcrupulous authenticity , has ...
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... allow me to read to him almost the whole of my manufcript , and make fuch remarks as were greatly for the advantage of the Work ; though it is but fair to him to mention , that upon many occafions I differed from him , and followed my ...
... allow me to read to him almost the whole of my manufcript , and make fuch remarks as were greatly for the advantage of the Work ; though it is but fair to him to mention , that upon many occafions I differed from him , and followed my ...
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... allowed her half - a - guinea a week . Let it be remembered , that this was above a twelfth part of his penfion . His liberality , indeed , was at all periods of his life very remarkable . remarkable . Mr. Howard , of Lichfield , at ...
... allowed her half - a - guinea a week . Let it be remembered , that this was above a twelfth part of his penfion . His liberality , indeed , was at all periods of his life very remarkable . remarkable . Mr. Howard , of Lichfield , at ...
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... allowed to have had 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 ...
... allowed to have had 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 ...
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... ' ( fmiling ) . E. " If you allow no wine as Dicta- tor , you shall not have me for yourmafter of horse . " On Saturday , April 4 , I drank tea with Johnson at at Dr. Taylor's , where he had dined . He 18 THE LIFE OF.
... ' ( fmiling ) . E. " If you allow no wine as Dicta- tor , you shall not have me for yourmafter of horse . " On Saturday , April 4 , I drank tea with Johnson at at Dr. Taylor's , where he had dined . He 18 THE LIFE OF.
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