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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... myself not only the gratification of curiofity , both rational and fanciful , but the delight of feeing thofe whom I love and efteem . *** But fuch has been the course of things , that I could not come ; and fuch has been , I am afraid ...
... myself not only the gratification of curiofity , both rational and fanciful , but the delight of feeing thofe whom I love and efteem . *** But fuch has been the course of things , that I could not come ; and fuch has been , I am afraid ...
Page 65
... myself not forgotten ; and to be forgotten by you would give me great uneafi- nefs . My northern friends have never been un- kind to me : I have from you , dear Sir , teftimonies of affection , which I have not often been able to excite ...
... myself not forgotten ; and to be forgotten by you would give me great uneafi- nefs . My northern friends have never been un- kind to me : I have from you , dear Sir , teftimonies of affection , which I have not often been able to excite ...
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... myself , folemnly devout . I never shall forget the tremulous earneftness with which he pronounced the aweful petition in the Litany : " In the hour of death , and at the day of judgement , good LORD deliver us , " " We went to church ...
... myself , folemnly devout . I never shall forget the tremulous earneftness with which he pronounced the aweful petition in the Litany : " In the hour of death , and at the day of judgement , good LORD deliver us , " " We went to church ...
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... myself . It do me fome honour to inform the publick , that I have lived many years in intimacy with you . It may ferve the interefts of man- kind also to inform them , that the greatest wit may be found in a character , without ...
... myself . It do me fome honour to inform the publick , that I have lived many years in intimacy with you . It may ferve the interefts of man- kind also to inform them , that the greatest wit may be found in a character , without ...
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... myself , had confiderable effect in favour of Mr. Douglas ; of whofe legitimate filiation I was then , and am ftill , firmly convinced . Let me add , that no fact can be more respectably ascertained , than by the judgement of the most ...
... myself , had confiderable effect in favour of Mr. Douglas ; of whofe legitimate filiation I was then , and am ftill , firmly convinced . Let me add , that no fact can be more respectably ascertained , than by the judgement of the most ...
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