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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... pleasure and improvement which my annual visit to the metropolis always afforded me ; and particularly mentioned a peculiar satisfaction which I experienced in celebrating the festival of Easter in St. Paul's cathedral ; that to my ...
... pleasure and improvement which my annual visit to the metropolis always afforded me ; and particularly mentioned a peculiar satisfaction which I experienced in celebrating the festival of Easter in St. Paul's cathedral ; that to my ...
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... pleasure , is very natural ; but both information and pleasure must he regulated by propriety . Plea- sure , which cannot be obtained but by unseasonable or unsuitable expense , must always end in pain ; and pleasure , which must be ...
... pleasure , is very natural ; but both information and pleasure must he regulated by propriety . Plea- sure , which cannot be obtained but by unseasonable or unsuitable expense , must always end in pain ; and pleasure , which must be ...
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... pleasure to hear that a re- publication of Isaac Walton's Lives is intended . You have been in a mistake in thinking that Lord Hailes had it in view . I remember one morning , while he sat with you in my house , he said , that there ...
... pleasure to hear that a re- publication of Isaac Walton's Lives is intended . You have been in a mistake in thinking that Lord Hailes had it in view . I remember one morning , while he sat with you in my house , he said , that there ...
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... pleasure . Some few errours he has fallen into , but of no great import- ance , and those are lost in the numberless beauties of his work . " If I had leisure , I could perhaps point out the most exceptionable places ; but at present I ...
... pleasure . Some few errours he has fallen into , but of no great import- ance , and those are lost in the numberless beauties of his work . " If I had leisure , I could perhaps point out the most exceptionable places ; but at present I ...
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... pleasure which I have been accustomed to find in it will be much diminished by the reflection that the writer of so moral , so elegant , and so valuable a work , was capable of prostituting his talents in such productions as ' The False ...
... pleasure which I have been accustomed to find in it will be much diminished by the reflection that the writer of so moral , so elegant , and so valuable a work , was capable of prostituting his talents in such productions as ' The False ...
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