The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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Page 34
... add to it more than a few lines which he composed in his head , walking up and down in the park . Hoping in the meantime to earn some immediate money as a translator , he wrote to Edward Cave , owner of the Gentleman's Magazine which ...
... add to it more than a few lines which he composed in his head , walking up and down in the park . Hoping in the meantime to earn some immediate money as a translator , he wrote to Edward Cave , owner of the Gentleman's Magazine which ...
Page 36
... add the missing title above a caret ; and remarking to one of his authors , ' I hear you have just published a pamphlet , and am told there is a very good paragraph in it , upon the subject of music . Did you write that yourself ? ' Yet ...
... add the missing title above a caret ; and remarking to one of his authors , ' I hear you have just published a pamphlet , and am told there is a very good paragraph in it , upon the subject of music . Did you write that yourself ? ' Yet ...
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... add greatly to his Value as a Domestic Man : Yet I think his servants do not much love him , and I am not sure that his Children feel much Affection for him : low People almost all indeed agree to abhorr him , as he has not of that ...
... add greatly to his Value as a Domestic Man : Yet I think his servants do not much love him , and I am not sure that his Children feel much Affection for him : low People almost all indeed agree to abhorr him , as he has not of that ...
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