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, Volume 3J. Richardson, 1821 |
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... Italian and English . " + " TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " DEAR SIR , " You never did ask for a book by the post till now , and I did not think on it . You see now it is done . I sent one to the King , and I hear he likes it . " I shall ...
... Italian and English . " + " TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " DEAR SIR , " You never did ask for a book by the post till now , and I did not think on it . You see now it is done . I sent one to the King , and I hear he likes it . " I shall ...
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... Italy . " JOHNSON . " I should not have wished to be dead to disappoint Campbell , had he been so foolish as you represent him ; but I should have wished to have been a hundred miles off . " This was apparently perverse ; and I do be ...
... Italy . " JOHNSON . " I should not have wished to be dead to disappoint Campbell , had he been so foolish as you represent him ; but I should have wished to have been a hundred miles off . " This was apparently perverse ; and I do be ...
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... Italy in " The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , " ( p . 320 , 3d edit . ) he says , " it is a te- dious book ... Italian literature : he shews nothing of it in his subsequent writings . He shews a great deal of French learning . " M ...
... Italy in " The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , " ( p . 320 , 3d edit . ) he says , " it is a te- dious book ... Italian literature : he shews nothing of it in his subsequent writings . He shews a great deal of French learning . " M ...
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... Italian authour . " JOHNSON . Why , sir , all who go to look for what the Clas- sicks have said of Italy , must find the same pas sages ; and I should think it would be one of the first things the Italians would do on the revival of ...
... Italian authour . " JOHNSON . Why , sir , all who go to look for what the Clas- sicks have said of Italy , must find the same pas sages ; and I should think it would be one of the first things the Italians would do on the revival of ...
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... Italy , he on the first of April . says , " Let me warn you very earnestly against scruples . I am glad that you are reconciled to your settlement , and think it a great honour to have shaken Lord Hailes's opinion of entails . Do not ...
... Italy , he on the first of April . says , " Let me warn you very earnestly against scruples . I am glad that you are reconciled to your settlement , and think it a great honour to have shaken Lord Hailes's opinion of entails . Do not ...
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