The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for , excepting his ortho- graphick works , every thing which Dr. Johnson wrote was poetry , whose essence consists not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength and glow of a fancy ...
... afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for , excepting his ortho- graphick works , every thing which Dr. Johnson wrote was poetry , whose essence consists not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength and glow of a fancy ...
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... afterwards bishop of Lincoln , whose character in the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became chaplain to archbishop Boulter , and by that connexion obtained good preferment in ...
... afterwards bishop of Lincoln , whose character in the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became chaplain to archbishop Boulter , and by that connexion obtained good preferment in ...
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... afterwards the gratification to hear that the old gentleman , who lived to a very advanced age , mentioned it as one of the most me- morable events of his life , " that he was very near having that great man for a scholar . " He ...
... afterwards the gratification to hear that the old gentleman , who lived to a very advanced age , mentioned it as one of the most me- morable events of his life , " that he was very near having that great man for a scholar . " He ...
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... afterwards presided over Pembroke college with universal esteem , told me he was present , and gave me some account of what passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father , who had anxiously ...
... afterwards presided over Pembroke college with universal esteem , told me he was present , and gave me some account of what passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father , who had anxiously ...
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... afterwards bishop of Oxonh . " His father seemed very full of the merits of his son , and told the company he was a good scholar , and a poet , and wrote Latin verses . His figure and manner appeared strange to them ; but he behaved ...
... afterwards bishop of Oxonh . " His father seemed very full of the merits of his son , and told the company he was a good scholar , and a poet , and wrote Latin verses . His figure and manner appeared strange to them ; but he behaved ...
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