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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... afterwards loft the greatest part , by engaging unsuccessfully in a manufacture of parch- ment . He was a zealous high - churchman and royalist , and retained his attachment to the unfor- tunate house of Stuart , though he reconciled ...
... afterwards loft the greatest part , by engaging unsuccessfully in a manufacture of parch- ment . He was a zealous high - churchman and royalist , and retained his attachment to the unfor- tunate house of Stuart , though he reconciled ...
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... afterwards derived fo much benefit . He told me , that he remembered dif- tinctly having had the firft notice of Heaven , " a place to which good people went , " and hell , " a place to which bad people went , " communicated to him by ...
... afterwards derived fo much benefit . He told me , that he remembered dif- tinctly having had the firft notice of Heaven , " a place to which good people went , " and hell , " a place to which bad people went , " communicated to him by ...
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... afterwards bore fuch rich and plentiful fruits ; for , excepting his orthographick works , every thing which Dr. Johnson wrote was Poetry , whofe effence confifts not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the ftrength and glow of a fancy ...
... afterwards bore fuch rich and plentiful fruits ; for , excepting his orthographick works , every thing which Dr. Johnson wrote was Poetry , whofe effence confifts not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the ftrength and glow of a fancy ...
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... afterwards Bishop of Lincoln , whofe character in the learned world is well known . In the fame form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in ...
... afterwards Bishop of Lincoln , whofe character in the learned world is well known . In the fame form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in ...
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... afterwards Canon of Windfor . " time ; he faid , Without that , He told Mr. flogging his " And this I Johnfon , Indeed Johnson was very fenfible how much he owed to Mr. Hunter . Mr. Langton one day asked him how he had acquired fo ...
... afterwards Canon of Windfor . " time ; he faid , Without that , He told Mr. flogging his " And this I Johnfon , Indeed Johnson was very fenfible how much he owed to Mr. Hunter . Mr. Langton one day asked him how he had acquired fo ...
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