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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... Italian and English . † " To JAMES BOSWELL , Efq . " DEAR SIR , " YOU never did afk for a book by the poft till now , and I did not think on it . You fee now now it is done . I fent one to the 160 THE LIFE OF Etat, 66. ...
... Italian and English . † " To JAMES BOSWELL , Efq . " DEAR SIR , " YOU never did afk for a book by the poft till now , and I did not think on it . You fee now now it is done . I fent one to the 160 THE LIFE OF Etat, 66. ...
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... Italy . " JOHNSON . " I should not have wifhed to be dead to disappoint Campbell , had he been fo foolish as you reprefent him ; but I fhould have wifhed to have been a hundred miles off . " This was appa- . rently perverse ; and I do ...
... Italy . " JOHNSON . " I should not have wifhed to be dead to disappoint Campbell , had he been fo foolish as you reprefent him ; but I fhould have wifhed to have been a hundred miles off . " This was appa- . rently perverse ; and I do ...
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... Italian learning , for we do not find it introduced into his writings . The only inftance that I recollect , is his quoting < Stavo bene . Per far meglio , fto qui . ' if it was worded as he fuppofed , it is fo ftrange that I should ...
... Italian learning , for we do not find it introduced into his writings . The only inftance that I recollect , is his quoting < Stavo bene . Per far meglio , fto qui . ' if it was worded as he fuppofed , it is fo ftrange that I should ...
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... Italian authour . " JOHN- SON . Why , Sir , all who go to look for what the Clafficks have faid of Italy , muft find the fame paffages ; and I should think it would be one of the firft things the Italians would do on the revival of ...
... Italian authour . " JOHN- SON . Why , Sir , all who go to look for what the Clafficks have faid of Italy , muft find the fame paffages ; and I should think it would be one of the firft things the Italians would do on the revival of ...
Page 305
... Italy , he fays , on the first of April . " Let me warn you very earnestly against scru- ples . I am glad that you are reconciled to your fettlement , and think it a great honour to have fhaken Lord Hailes's opinion of entails . Do not ...
... Italy , he fays , on the first of April . " Let me warn you very earnestly against scru- ples . I am glad that you are reconciled to your fettlement , and think it a great honour to have fhaken Lord Hailes's opinion of entails . Do not ...
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