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 VolumesHenry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... character , without impairing the moft unaffected piety . " 5 See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman , and of his curious work on the Middle State , " Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , " 3d edit , p . 371 . He He ...
... character , without impairing the moft unaffected piety . " 5 See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman , and of his curious work on the Middle State , " Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , " 3d edit , p . 371 . He He ...
Page 81
... character being mentioned ; -JOHNSON . " I remember being present when he fhewed himself to be fo corrupted , or at least some- thing fo different from what I think right , as to maintain , that a member of parliament fhould go along ...
... character being mentioned ; -JOHNSON . " I remember being present when he fhewed himself to be fo corrupted , or at least some- thing fo different from what I think right , as to maintain , that a member of parliament fhould go along ...
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... character . " For instance , ( faid he , ) the fable of the little fishes , who faw birds fly over their heads , and en- vying them , petitioned Jupiter to be changed into . birds . The fkill ( continued he , ) consists in making them ...
... character . " For instance , ( faid he , ) the fable of the little fishes , who faw birds fly over their heads , and en- vying them , petitioned Jupiter to be changed into . birds . The fkill ( continued he , ) consists in making them ...
Page 92
... character of Mallet having been introduced , and spoken of flightingly by Goldsmith ; JOHN- SON . " Why , Sir , Mallet had talents enough to keep his literary reputation alive as long as he himself lived ; and that , let me tell you ...
... character of Mallet having been introduced , and spoken of flightingly by Goldsmith ; JOHN- SON . " Why , Sir , Mallet had talents enough to keep his literary reputation alive as long as he himself lived ; and that , let me tell you ...
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... character beyond what I thought really true ; but a speech on the stage , let it flatter ever fo extravagantly , is formular . It has always been formular to flatter Kings and Queens ; fo much fo , that even in our church - service we ...
... character beyond what I thought really true ; but a speech on the stage , let it flatter ever fo extravagantly , is formular . It has always been formular to flatter Kings and Queens ; fo much fo , that even in our church - service we ...
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