The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... never fails to show me that he has good reasons for it . " I have heard Johnson pay his lordship this high compliment : " I never was in lord Eli- bank's company without learning something . " We sat together till it was too late for ...
... never fails to show me that he has good reasons for it . " I have heard Johnson pay his lordship this high compliment : " I never was in lord Eli- bank's company without learning something . " We sat together till it was too late for ...
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... never wished to have a child . " Mr. Murphy mentioned Dr. Johnson's having a design to publish an edition of Cowley . Johnson said , he did not know but he should ; and he expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd , for having published ...
... never wished to have a child . " Mr. Murphy mentioned Dr. Johnson's having a design to publish an edition of Cowley . Johnson said , he did not know but he should ; and he expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd , for having published ...
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... never felt that anxiety , but sent what we wrote to the press , and let it take its chance . " Mrs. THRALE . " The time has been , sir , when you felt it . " JOHNSON . “ Why really , madam , I do not recollect a time when that was the ...
... never felt that anxiety , but sent what we wrote to the press , and let it take its chance . " Mrs. THRALE . " The time has been , sir , when you felt it . " JOHNSON . “ Why really , madam , I do not recollect a time when that was the ...
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... never exchanged mind with you . " We spent the evening at Mr. Hoole's . Mr. Mickle , the excellent translator of The Lusiad , was there . I have preserved little of the conversation of this evening . Dr. Johnson said , " Thomson had a ...
... never exchanged mind with you . " We spent the evening at Mr. Hoole's . Mr. Mickle , the excellent translator of The Lusiad , was there . I have preserved little of the conversation of this evening . Dr. Johnson said , " Thomson had a ...
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... never cured , ruined the sale of perhaps the only book , which being printed off [ published ] betimes one morn- ing , a new edition was called for before night . " - See Mrs. Piozzi's Anec- dotes , p . 221.-ED. a Mr. Romney the painter ...
... never cured , ruined the sale of perhaps the only book , which being printed off [ published ] betimes one morn- ing , a new edition was called for before night . " - See Mrs. Piozzi's Anec- dotes , p . 221.-ED. a Mr. Romney the painter ...
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