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... common shore , Where France does all her filth and ordure pour . The common shore of Paris and of Rome . OLDHAM . JOHNSON . and , No calling or profession comes amiss , A needy monsieur can be what he please . OLDHAM . All sciences a ...
... common shore , Where France does all her filth and ordure pour . The common shore of Paris and of Rome . OLDHAM . JOHNSON . and , No calling or profession comes amiss , A needy monsieur can be what he please . OLDHAM . All sciences a ...
Page 84
... common merit , and thought it creditable to have a share in it . The fact is , that , at a future conference , he bar- gained for the whole property of it , for which he gave Johnson ten guineas ; who told me , " I might perhaps have ...
... common merit , and thought it creditable to have a share in it . The fact is , that , at a future conference , he bar- gained for the whole property of it , for which he gave Johnson ten guineas ; who told me , " I might perhaps have ...
Page 86
... common topicks of patriotism , liberty , and independ- Accordingly , we find in Johnson's London the most spirited invectives against tyranny and oppression , the warmest predilection for his own country , and the purest love of virtue ...
... common topicks of patriotism , liberty , and independ- Accordingly , we find in Johnson's London the most spirited invectives against tyranny and oppression , the warmest predilection for his own country , and the purest love of virtue ...
Page 88
... common powers , he had not that bustling confidence , or , I may rather say , that animated ambition , which one might have supposed would have urged him to endeavour at rising in life . But such was his inflexible dignity of cha ...
... common powers , he had not that bustling confidence , or , I may rather say , that animated ambition , which one might have supposed would have urged him to endeavour at rising in life . But such was his inflexible dignity of cha ...
Page 89
James Boswell. of arts , Dr Adams was applied to , by a common friend , to know whether that could be granted him as a favour from the university of Oxford . But though he had made such a figure in the literary world , it was then ...
James Boswell. of arts , Dr Adams was applied to , by a common friend , to know whether that could be granted him as a favour from the university of Oxford . But though he had made such a figure in the literary world , it was then ...
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