Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H. Washbourne, 1857 - 580 pages |
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Page 107
... excellent moral , while it inculcates a future state of retribution ; * and what it teaches is impressed upon the mind by a series of as deep distress as can affect huma- nity , in the amiable and pious heroine who goes to her grave ...
... excellent moral , while it inculcates a future state of retribution ; * and what it teaches is impressed upon the mind by a series of as deep distress as can affect huma- nity , in the amiable and pious heroine who goes to her grave ...
Page 280
... excellent poem , " THE FLEECE . " Having talked of Grain- ger's Sugar - Cane , " I mentioned to him Mr. Langton's having told me that this poem , when read in manuscript at Sir 66 * Sir John Hawkins has preserved very few Memora- bilia ...
... excellent poem , " THE FLEECE . " Having talked of Grain- ger's Sugar - Cane , " I mentioned to him Mr. Langton's having told me that this poem , when read in manuscript at Sir 66 * Sir John Hawkins has preserved very few Memora- bilia ...
Page 325
... excellent man , with a pretty good estate of his own , and the prospect of having the Earl of Loudoun's fortune and honours . Is not this a noble lot for our fair Hebridean ? How happy am I that she is to be in Ayrshire . We shall have ...
... excellent man , with a pretty good estate of his own , and the prospect of having the Earl of Loudoun's fortune and honours . Is not this a noble lot for our fair Hebridean ? How happy am I that she is to be in Ayrshire . We shall have ...
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