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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... heard there of any Counfel ; and he is the most impudent dog , and always abufing us . " In my interview with Dr. Johnson this evening , I was quite eafy , quite as his companion ; upon which I find in my Journal the following ...
... heard there of any Counfel ; and he is the most impudent dog , and always abufing us . " In my interview with Dr. Johnson this evening , I was quite eafy , quite as his companion ; upon which I find in my Journal the following ...
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... heard , that it must be altered . " JOHNSON . " And , Sir , there is a gra- tification of pride . Though we cannot out - vote them we will out - argue them . They fhall not do wrong without its being fhown both to them- felves and to ...
... heard , that it must be altered . " JOHNSON . " And , Sir , there is a gra- tification of pride . Though we cannot out - vote them we will out - argue them . They fhall not do wrong without its being fhown both to them- felves and to ...
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... heard him tell many things , which , though embellished by their mode of narrative , had their foundation in truth ; but I never remem- ber any thing approaching to this . If he had written it , I fhould have fuppofed fome wag had put ...
... heard him tell many things , which , though embellished by their mode of narrative , had their foundation in truth ; but I never remem- ber any thing approaching to this . If he had written it , I fhould have fuppofed fome wag had put ...
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... heard . " I told him , that I had been prefent the day be- fore when Mrs. Montagu , the literary lady , fat to Mifs Reynolds for her picture ; and that he said , " fhe had bound up Mr. Gibbon's Hiftory without the last two offenfive ...
... heard . " I told him , that I had been prefent the day be- fore when Mrs. Montagu , the literary lady , fat to Mifs Reynolds for her picture ; and that he said , " fhe had bound up Mr. Gibbon's Hiftory without the last two offenfive ...
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... heard not a single intellectual sentence , except that " a man who had been settled ten years in Minorca was become a much inferiour man to what he was in London , becaufe a man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place . " 3 * place ...
... heard not a single intellectual sentence , except that " a man who had been settled ten years in Minorca was become a much inferiour man to what he was in London , becaufe a man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place . " 3 * place ...
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