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 : in Three Volumes ...Henry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... of Mifs Seward , amongst the communica- tions concerning Dr. Johnson with which she has been pleased to favour me . " These infant numbers contain the feeds of thofe Young Johnson had the misfortune to be much afflicted with 18 THE LIFE OF.
... of Mifs Seward , amongst the communica- tions concerning Dr. Johnson with which she has been pleased to favour me . " These infant numbers contain the feeds of thofe Young Johnson had the misfortune to be much afflicted with 18 THE LIFE OF.
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... SHE ceas'd ; then godlike Hector anfwer'd kind , ( His various plumage sporting in the wind ) That poft , and all the reft , fhall be my care ; But fhall I , then , forfake the unfinished war ? How would the Trojans brand great Hector's ...
... SHE ceas'd ; then godlike Hector anfwer'd kind , ( His various plumage sporting in the wind ) That poft , and all the reft , fhall be my care ; But fhall I , then , forfake the unfinished war ? How would the Trojans brand great Hector's ...
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... She remembers Dr. Johnson on a visit to Dr , Taylor , at Afhbourn , fome time between the end of the year 37 , and the middle of the year 40 ; fhe rather thinks it to have been after he and his wife were removed to London . During his ...
... She remembers Dr. Johnson on a visit to Dr , Taylor , at Afhbourn , fome time between the end of the year 37 , and the middle of the year 40 ; fhe rather thinks it to have been after he and his wife were removed to London . During his ...
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... She ufed to repeat them to me , when I asked her for the verfes Dr. Johnson gave her on a sprig of myrtle , which he had ftolen or begged from her bosom . We all know honeft Lucy Porter to have been incapable of the mean vanity of ...
... She ufed to repeat them to me , when I asked her for the verfes Dr. Johnson gave her on a sprig of myrtle , which he had ftolen or begged from her bosom . We all know honeft Lucy Porter to have been incapable of the mean vanity of ...
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... she must have had a fuperiority of understanding and talents , as fhe certainly in- fpired him with a more than ordinary paffion ; and The having fignified her willingness to accept of his hand , he went to Lichfield to afk his mother's ...
... she must have had a fuperiority of understanding and talents , as fhe certainly in- fpired him with a more than ordinary paffion ; and The having fignified her willingness to accept of his hand , he went to Lichfield to afk his mother's ...
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