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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... seemed to hope he should be able to convince you of the antiquity of a good proportion of the poems of Ossian . After all that has passed , I think the matter is capable of being proved to a certain degree . I am told that Mac- pherson ...
... seemed to hope he should be able to convince you of the antiquity of a good proportion of the poems of Ossian . After all that has passed , I think the matter is capable of being proved to a certain degree . I am told that Mac- pherson ...
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... seemed to excite some ridicule . I was then so impressed with the truth of many of the stories of which I had been told , that I avowed my conviction , saying , “ He is only willing to believe : I do believe . The evidence is enough for ...
... seemed to excite some ridicule . I was then so impressed with the truth of many of the stories of which I had been told , that I avowed my conviction , saying , “ He is only willing to believe : I do believe . The evidence is enough for ...
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... seemed quite a cloud , amidst all the sunshine of glitter and gaiety . I wondered at his patience in sitting out a play of five acts , and a farce of two . He said very little ; but after the prologue to " Bon Ton " had been spoken ...
... seemed quite a cloud , amidst all the sunshine of glitter and gaiety . I wondered at his patience in sitting out a play of five acts , and a farce of two . He said very little ; but after the prologue to " Bon Ton " had been spoken ...
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... seemed to think that he had a strange unwillingness to be discovered . We could not divine what he did with them ; and this was the bold question to be put . I saw on his table the spoils of the pre- ceding night , some fresh peels ...
... seemed to think that he had a strange unwillingness to be discovered . We could not divine what he did with them ; and this was the bold question to be put . I saw on his table the spoils of the pre- ceding night , some fresh peels ...
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... seemed pleased with it , because , as I conjectured , he liked to be sometimes taken out of the class of literary men , and to be merely genteel , —un gentilhomme comme un autre . 1 " The original is in the hands of Dr. Fothergill ...
... seemed pleased with it , because , as I conjectured , he liked to be sometimes taken out of the class of literary men , and to be merely genteel , —un gentilhomme comme un autre . 1 " The original is in the hands of Dr. Fothergill ...
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