The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page 74
... admirable essays which he wrote for it . Though Johnson was often solicited by his friends to make a complete list of his writings , and talked of doing it , I believe with a serious intention that they should all be collected on his ...
... admirable essays which he wrote for it . Though Johnson was often solicited by his friends to make a complete list of his writings , and talked of doing it , I believe with a serious intention that they should all be collected on his ...
Page 88
... admired . Though thus elevated into fame , and conscious of un- common powers , he had not that bustling confidence , or , I may rather say , that animated ambition , which one might have supposed would have urged him to endeavour at ...
... admired . Though thus elevated into fame , and conscious of un- common powers , he had not that bustling confidence , or , I may rather say , that animated ambition , which one might have supposed would have urged him to endeavour at ...
Page 103
... ADMIRATION OF ALL THAT KNEW HIM : HE WAS BORN IN WALES , MADE THE TOUR OF EUROPE , AND , AFTER THE EXPERIENCE OF BOTH KINDS OF fortune , DIED IN 1732 . Mr. Garrick appears not to have recited the verses correctly , the original being as ...
... ADMIRATION OF ALL THAT KNEW HIM : HE WAS BORN IN WALES , MADE THE TOUR OF EUROPE , AND , AFTER THE EXPERIENCE OF BOTH KINDS OF fortune , DIED IN 1732 . Mr. Garrick appears not to have recited the verses correctly , the original being as ...
Page 107
... admiration of his philological attainments . It was afterwards prefixed to the first volume of the Cata- logue , in which the Latin accounts of books were written by him . He was employed in this business by Mr. Thomas Osborne , the ...
... admiration of his philological attainments . It was afterwards prefixed to the first volume of the Cata- logue , in which the Latin accounts of books were written by him . He was employed in this business by Mr. Thomas Osborne , the ...
Page 111
... admirable metaphysical acuteness and temperance in controversy ; Ad Lauram parituram Epi- • Angliacas inter pulcherrima Laura puellas , Mox uteri pondus depositura grave , Adsit , Laura , tibi facilis Lucina dolenti , Neve tibi noceat ...
... admirable metaphysical acuteness and temperance in controversy ; Ad Lauram parituram Epi- • Angliacas inter pulcherrima Laura puellas , Mox uteri pondus depositura grave , Adsit , Laura , tibi facilis Lucina dolenti , Neve tibi noceat ...
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