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 VolumesHenry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... English literature , especially the early writers , but at the fame time of acute difcernment and elegant taste . It is almoft unneceffary to fay , that by his great * He , however , wrote , or partly wrote , an Epitaph on Mrs. Bell ...
... English literature , especially the early writers , but at the fame time of acute difcernment and elegant taste . It is almoft unneceffary to fay , that by his great * He , however , wrote , or partly wrote , an Epitaph on Mrs. Bell ...
Page 100
... English than the Scotch do ; their language is Mr. Reed informs me that the Authour of Eugenio , a Wine Merchant at Wrexham in Denbighshire , foon after its publica- tion , viz . 17th May , 1737 , cut his own throat , and that it ap ...
... English than the Scotch do ; their language is Mr. Reed informs me that the Authour of Eugenio , a Wine Merchant at Wrexham in Denbighshire , foon after its publica- tion , viz . 17th May , 1737 , cut his own throat , and that it ap ...
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... English ; as a proof of which , they fuc- ceed very well as players , which Scotchmen do not . Then , Sir , they have not that extreme na- tionality which we find in the Scotch . I will do , you , Bofwell , the justice to say , that you ...
... English ; as a proof of which , they fuc- ceed very well as players , which Scotchmen do not . Then , Sir , they have not that extreme na- tionality which we find in the Scotch . I will do , you , Bofwell , the justice to say , that you ...
Page 149
... English Vocabulary . D To JAMES BOSWELL , Efq . " DEAR SIR , " I WISH you could have looked over my book before the printer , but it could not eafily be . I fufpect fome mistakes ; but as I deal , perhaps , more in notions than in facts ...
... English Vocabulary . D To JAMES BOSWELL , Efq . " DEAR SIR , " I WISH you could have looked over my book before the printer , but it could not eafily be . I fufpect fome mistakes ; but as I deal , perhaps , more in notions than in facts ...
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... English translation . It will be doubly kind if you comply with my request fpeedily . ་ • < " Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's Annals of Scotland , ' are excellent . I agreed with you in every one of them . He ...
... English translation . It will be doubly kind if you comply with my request fpeedily . ་ • < " Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's Annals of Scotland , ' are excellent . I agreed with you in every one of them . He ...
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