The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprising a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons ...Routledge, 1867 - 526 pages |
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... Italian , I do not know ; but he was so well skilled in them , as to be sufficiently qualified for a translator . That part of his labour which con- sisted in emendation and improvement of the productions of other contributors , like ...
... Italian , I do not know ; but he was so well skilled in them , as to be sufficiently qualified for a translator . That part of his labour which con- sisted in emendation and improvement of the productions of other contributors , like ...
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... Italian of Father Paul Sarpi ; with the Author's life , and Notes , Theological , Historical , and Critical , from the French edition of Dr. Le Courayer ; to which are added , Observations on the History , and Notes and Illustrations ...
... Italian of Father Paul Sarpi ; with the Author's life , and Notes , Theological , Historical , and Critical , from the French edition of Dr. Le Courayer ; to which are added , Observations on the History , and Notes and Illustrations ...
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... Italian : -nothing in it is well . " I had no notion of having any thing for the inscription . I hope you don't think I kept it to " The Plain Dealer " was published in 1724 , and con- tained some account of Savage . - BOSWELL . + ...
... Italian : -nothing in it is well . " I had no notion of having any thing for the inscription . I hope you don't think I kept it to " The Plain Dealer " was published in 1724 , and con- tained some account of Savage . - BOSWELL . + ...
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... Italy he met with it in Devon- had committed in the course of that night's act- shire , knowing nothing of its author , and began ing , said , " The players , Sir , have got a kind of to read it while he was standing with his arm rant ...
... Italy he met with it in Devon- had committed in the course of that night's act- shire , knowing nothing of its author , and began ing , said , " The players , Sir , have got a kind of to read it while he was standing with his arm rant ...
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... Italians have literally , but ludicrously translated by Il Vaga- bondo , and which has been lately assumed as the denomination of a vehicle of licentious tales . " The Rambler's Magazine . " He gave Sir Joshua Reynolds the following ...
... Italians have literally , but ludicrously translated by Il Vaga- bondo , and which has been lately assumed as the denomination of a vehicle of licentious tales . " The Rambler's Magazine . " He gave Sir Joshua Reynolds the following ...
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