The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... distinct portraiture , Johnson's companions clus- tered around their venerated master in all the grotesque variety of their undisguised character , listening to conversations of which Athens might have been justly PREFATORY NOTICE . ix.
... distinct portraiture , Johnson's companions clus- tered around their venerated master in all the grotesque variety of their undisguised character , listening to conversations of which Athens might have been justly PREFATORY NOTICE . ix.
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... character ; and as I have spared no pains in obtaining materials con- cerning him , from every quarter where I could discover that they were to be found , and have been favoured with the most liberal communications by his friends ; I ...
... character ; and as I have spared no pains in obtaining materials con- cerning him , from every quarter where I could discover that they were to be found , and have been favoured with the most liberal communications by his friends ; I ...
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... character and conduct of my illustrious friend ; who , I trust , will , by a true and fair delineation , be vindi- cated both from the injurious misrepresentations of this author , and from the slighter aspersions of a lady who once ...
... character and conduct of my illustrious friend ; who , I trust , will , by a true and fair delineation , be vindi- cated both from the injurious misrepresentations of this author , and from the slighter aspersions of a lady who once ...
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... character is more fully understood and illustrated . Indeed I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writ- ing any man's life , than not only relating all the most im- portant events of it in their order , but interweaving what he ...
... character is more fully understood and illustrated . Indeed I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writ- ing any man's life , than not only relating all the most im- portant events of it in their order , but interweaving what he ...
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... characters adorned with uni form panegyrick , and not to be known from one another but by extrinsick and casual circumstances . ' Let me remem- ber , ' says Hale , ' when I find myself inclined to pity a cri- minal , that there is ...
... characters adorned with uni form panegyrick , and not to be known from one another but by extrinsick and casual circumstances . ' Let me remem- ber , ' says Hale , ' when I find myself inclined to pity a cri- minal , that there is ...
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