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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... occasion diffused its influence on my mind through the rest of the year . 66 TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ " DEAR SIR , [ Not dated , but written about the 15th of March . ] " I AM ashamed to think that since I received your letter I have ...
... occasion diffused its influence on my mind through the rest of the year . 66 TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ " DEAR SIR , [ Not dated , but written about the 15th of March . ] " I AM ashamed to think that since I received your letter I have ...
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... occasion . Lord Hailes writes to me thus : ' Mr. Boswell will be pleased to express the grateful sense which Sir David Dalrymple has of Dr. Johnson's attention to his little specimen . The further speci- men will shew , that Even in an ...
... occasion . Lord Hailes writes to me thus : ' Mr. Boswell will be pleased to express the grateful sense which Sir David Dalrymple has of Dr. Johnson's attention to his little specimen . The further speci- men will shew , that Even in an ...
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... occasion to such a discursive exercise of his mind as our tour to the Hebrides . I do not find that he kept any journal or notes of what he saw there . All that I heard him say of it was , that " instead of bleak and barren mountains ...
... occasion to such a discursive exercise of his mind as our tour to the Hebrides . I do not find that he kept any journal or notes of what he saw there . All that I heard him say of it was , that " instead of bleak and barren mountains ...
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... occasion . 6 " Lord Hailes writes to me ( for we correspond more than we talk together ) , As to Fingal , I see a controversy arising , and purpose to keep out of its way . There is no doubt that I might mention some circumstances ; but ...
... occasion . 6 " Lord Hailes writes to me ( for we correspond more than we talk together ) , As to Fingal , I see a controversy arising , and purpose to keep out of its way . There is no doubt that I might mention some circumstances ; but ...
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... but he feared nothing else , not even what might occasion death . Many instances of his re- 1 I have deposited it in the British Museum . solution may be mentioned . One day , at Mr. Etat . 66. ] 27 DR . JOHNSON . "MR. JAMES MACPHERSON, ...
... but he feared nothing else , not even what might occasion death . Many instances of his re- 1 I have deposited it in the British Museum . solution may be mentioned . One day , at Mr. Etat . 66. ] 27 DR . JOHNSON . "MR. JAMES MACPHERSON, ...
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