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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... written to , to fend another of the fame kind . Let the request be made with a happy ambiguity of ex- preffion , so that we may have the chance of his fending it also as a prefent . " JOHNSON . " I am willing to offer my services as ...
... written to , to fend another of the fame kind . Let the request be made with a happy ambiguity of ex- preffion , so that we may have the chance of his fending it also as a prefent . " JOHNSON . " I am willing to offer my services as ...
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... written by Etat . 69 . a Dr. Kennedy , ( not the Lisbon phyfician . ) " The catastrophe of it ( said he ) was , that a King , who was jealous of his Queen with his prime - minister , caftrated himself . This tragedy was actually fhewn ...
... written by Etat . 69 . a Dr. Kennedy , ( not the Lisbon phyfician . ) " The catastrophe of it ( said he ) was , that a King , who was jealous of his Queen with his prime - minister , caftrated himself . This tragedy was actually fhewn ...
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... written by a man of various enquiry , an English chaplain to a regiment ftationed there . JOHNSON . " It is fad ftuff , Sir , miferably written , as books in general then were . There is now an elegance of ftyle univerfally diffufed ...
... written by a man of various enquiry , an English chaplain to a regiment ftationed there . JOHNSON . " It is fad ftuff , Sir , miferably written , as books in general then were . There is now an elegance of ftyle univerfally diffufed ...
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... written . " BoSWELL . " What I wish to know is , what fermons afford the best fpecimen of English pulpit eloquence . " JOHN- SON . " We have no fermons addreffed to the paf- fions , that are good for any thing ; if you mean that kind of ...
... written . " BoSWELL . " What I wish to know is , what fermons afford the best fpecimen of English pulpit eloquence . " JOHN- SON . " We have no fermons addreffed to the paf- fions , that are good for any thing ; if you mean that kind of ...
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... written the line , as much as if he had feen me write it . Goldfmith , however , was a man , who , whatever he wrote , did it better than any other man could do . He deferved a place in Westminster - Abbey , and every year he lived ...
... written the line , as much as if he had feen me write it . Goldfmith , however , was a man , who , whatever he wrote , did it better than any other man could do . He deferved a place in Westminster - Abbey , and every year he lived ...
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