The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page 110
... believe you do not think I set it high ; and I will be glad if what you give you will give quickly . " You need not be in care about something to print , for I have got the State Trials , and shall extract Layer , Atter- bury , and ...
... believe you do not think I set it high ; and I will be glad if what you give you will give quickly . " You need not be in care about something to print , for I have got the State Trials , and shall extract Layer , Atter- bury , and ...
Page 115
... believe I can do it ; but I take two months for a certainty , and beg an answer whether you can allow me so much time . I think myself very much obliged to your forbearance , and shall esteem it a great happiness to be able to serve you ...
... believe I can do it ; but I take two months for a certainty , and beg an answer whether you can allow me so much time . I think myself very much obliged to your forbearance , and shall esteem it a great happiness to be able to serve you ...
Page 124
... believe that this was a malignant lie , invented by a mother to prevent her own child from receiving the bounty of his father , which was accordingly the consequence , if the person whose life Johnson wrote was her son ; or shall we not ...
... believe that this was a malignant lie , invented by a mother to prevent her own child from receiving the bounty of his father , which was accordingly the consequence , if the person whose life Johnson wrote was her son ; or shall we not ...
Page 128
... believe , had he been master of his own will , have engaged himself , rather than on any other subject . " In 1747 it is supposed that the Gentleman's Magazine for May was enriched by him with five short poetical pieces , distinguished ...
... believe , had he been master of his own will , have engaged himself , rather than on any other subject . " In 1747 it is supposed that the Gentleman's Magazine for May was enriched by him with five short poetical pieces , distinguished ...
Page 129
... believe that he could produce such a group of conceits as appear in the verses to Lyce , in which he claims for this ancient person- age as good a right to be assimilated to heaven , as nymphs whom other poets have flattered ; he ...
... believe that he could produce such a group of conceits as appear in the verses to Lyce , in which he claims for this ancient person- age as good a right to be assimilated to heaven , as nymphs whom other poets have flattered ; he ...
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