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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... pleased to welcome me , —for the number of valuable acquaint- ances to whom you have introduced me , - for the noctes canaque Deum , which I have enjoyed under your roof . If a work should be infcribed to one who is mafter of the ...
... pleased to welcome me , —for the number of valuable acquaint- ances to whom you have introduced me , - for the noctes canaque Deum , which I have enjoyed under your roof . If a work should be infcribed to one who is mafter of the ...
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... pleased to favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my Work . But I cannot fufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. Malone , who was fo good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my ...
... pleased to favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my Work . But I cannot fufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. Malone , who was fo good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my ...
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... pleased with my paying fo great attention to his recommendation in 1763 , the period when our acquaintance began , that I should It was called " The Siege of Aleppo . " Mr. Hawkins the Authour of it , was formerly Profeffor of Poetry at ...
... pleased with my paying fo great attention to his recommendation in 1763 , the period when our acquaintance began , that I should It was called " The Siege of Aleppo . " Mr. Hawkins the Authour of it , was formerly Profeffor of Poetry at ...
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... with which he was better pleased . He then took the book into his own hands , and having looked at the prayer at the end of it , he faid , " What evidence E 2 1778 . Etat . 69 . evidence is there that DR JOHNSON . 51.
... with which he was better pleased . He then took the book into his own hands , and having looked at the prayer at the end of it , he faid , " What evidence E 2 1778 . Etat . 69 . evidence is there that DR JOHNSON . 51.
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... pleased with such praise from fuch a man as Orme . At Mr. Dilly's to - day were Mrs. Knowles , the ingenious Quaker lady , Mifs Seward , the poetess of 8 Dr. Johnson , defcribing her needle - work in one of his let- ters to Mrs. Thrale ...
... pleased with such praise from fuch a man as Orme . At Mr. Dilly's to - day were Mrs. Knowles , the ingenious Quaker lady , Mifs Seward , the poetess of 8 Dr. Johnson , defcribing her needle - work in one of his let- ters to Mrs. Thrale ...
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