The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1Gabriel Wells, 1922 |
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Page 91
... tragedy , and to see to get himself employed in some translation , either from the Latin or the French . Johnson is a very good scholar and poet , and I have great hopes will turn out a fine tragedy - writer . If it should any 1 Mr ...
... tragedy , and to see to get himself employed in some translation , either from the Latin or the French . Johnson is a very good scholar and poet , and I have great hopes will turn out a fine tragedy - writer . If it should any 1 Mr ...
Page 97
... tragedy , which was not executed with his rapidity of composition upon other occasions , but was slowly and pain- fully elaborated . A few days before his death , while burning a great mass of papers , he picked out from among them the ...
... tragedy , which was not executed with his rapidity of composition upon other occasions , but was slowly and pain- fully elaborated . A few days before his death , while burning a great mass of papers , he picked out from among them the ...
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... tragedy , but that he had not the sensibility to perceive them . His great friend Mr. Walmsley's prediction , that he would " turn out a fine tragedy - writer , " was , therefore , ill - founded . 1 Aaron Hill ( vol . ii . p . 355 ) ...
... tragedy , but that he had not the sensibility to perceive them . His great friend Mr. Walmsley's prediction , that he would " turn out a fine tragedy - writer , " was , therefore , ill - founded . 1 Aaron Hill ( vol . ii . p . 355 ) ...
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