The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page 224
... endeavour to make it cheerful . I wish your brother could meet us , that we might go and drink tea with Mr. Wise in a body . I hope he will be at Oxford , or at his nest of British and Saxon antiquities . I shall expect to see Spenser ...
... endeavour to make it cheerful . I wish your brother could meet us , that we might go and drink tea with Mr. Wise in a body . I hope he will be at Oxford , or at his nest of British and Saxon antiquities . I shall expect to see Spenser ...
Page 244
... endeavour to procure for him a poem of Dr. Madden's , called Boulter's Monument . The rea- son , ' said he , ' why I wish for it , is this : when Dr. Mad- den came to London , he submitted that work to my castigation ; and I remember I ...
... endeavour to procure for him a poem of Dr. Madden's , called Boulter's Monument . The rea- son , ' said he , ' why I wish for it , is this : when Dr. Mad- den came to London , he submitted that work to my castigation ; and I remember I ...
Page 249
... endeavour to depress me with threats of censure from the publick , or with objections learned from those who had learned them from my own preface . Yours is the only letter of good will that I have received ; though , indeed , I am ...
... endeavour to depress me with threats of censure from the publick , or with objections learned from those who had learned them from my own preface . Yours is the only letter of good will that I have received ; though , indeed , I am ...
Page 260
... endeavour to see things as they are , and then inquire whether we ought to complain . Whether to see life as it is will give us much consolation , I know not ; but the consolation which is drawn from truth , if any there be , is solid ...
... endeavour to see things as they are , and then inquire whether we ought to complain . Whether to see life as it is will give us much consolation , I know not ; but the consolation which is drawn from truth , if any there be , is solid ...
Page 261
... endeavour to obey you . " I have got twelve guineas1 to send you , but unhappily am at a loss how to send it to - night . If I cannot send it to - night , it will come by the next post . " Pray do not omit any thing mentioned in this.
... endeavour to obey you . " I have got twelve guineas1 to send you , but unhappily am at a loss how to send it to - night . If I cannot send it to - night , it will come by the next post . " Pray do not omit any thing mentioned in this.
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