Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H. Washbourne, 1857 - 580 pages |
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... literary abilities , in which I am not vain enough to compare myself with some great names who have gone before me in this kind of writing . * Idler , No. 84 . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have ...
... literary abilities , in which I am not vain enough to compare myself with some great names who have gone before me in this kind of writing . * Idler , No. 84 . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have ...
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... literary re- putation alive as long as he himself lived ; | and that , let me tell you , is a good deal . " GOLDSMITH : " But I cannot agree that it was so . His literary reputation was dead long before his natural death . I consider an ...
... literary re- putation alive as long as he himself lived ; | and that , let me tell you , is a good deal . " GOLDSMITH : " But I cannot agree that it was so . His literary reputation was dead long before his natural death . I consider an ...
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... literary am- bition , Had this happened twenty years ago , I should have gone to Constantinople to learn Arabic , as Pococke did . ' " " As an instance of the niceness of his taste , though he praised West's translation of Pindar , he ...
... literary am- bition , Had this happened twenty years ago , I should have gone to Constantinople to learn Arabic , as Pococke did . ' " " As an instance of the niceness of his taste , though he praised West's translation of Pindar , he ...
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