The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Heritage Press, 1963 |
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... character more than the greatest sieges , or the most important battles.'1 To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit . " The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those ...
... character more than the greatest sieges , or the most important battles.'1 To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit . " The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those ...
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... character of a ' respectable Hottentot , ' in Lord Chesterfield's Letters , has been generally understood to be meant for Johnson , and I have no doubt that it was . But I remember when the Literary Property of those letters was ...
... character of a ' respectable Hottentot , ' in Lord Chesterfield's Letters , has been generally understood to be meant for Johnson , and I have no doubt that it was . But I remember when the Literary Property of those letters was ...
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... characters of nature and characters of manners ; and there is the differ- ence between the characters of Fielding and those ... character of manners , though drawn with great humour . ' He then repeated , very happily , all Sir Francis's ...
... characters of nature and characters of manners ; and there is the differ- ence between the characters of Fielding and those ... character of manners , though drawn with great humour . ' He then repeated , very happily , all Sir Francis's ...
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