The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 2Macmillan, 1912 |
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Page 55
... pleased to let me know before Friday . I am , Sir , your most , & c . " Feb. 21 , 1774 . " " " TO THE SAME . " SAM . JOHNSON . " SIR , " LAST night you became a member of the club ; if you call on me on Friday , I will introduce you . A ...
... pleased to let me know before Friday . I am , Sir , your most , & c . " Feb. 21 , 1774 . " " " TO THE SAME . " SAM . JOHNSON . " SIR , " LAST night you became a member of the club ; if you call on me on Friday , I will introduce you . A ...
Page 62
... pleased to keep in mind , that my picture is a representation of a particular scene in her history her being forced to resign her crown , while she was im- 1 Croker has thus translated these lines : " Here Goldsmith lies . O ye , who ...
... pleased to keep in mind , that my picture is a representation of a particular scene in her history her being forced to resign her crown , while she was im- 1 Croker has thus translated these lines : " Here Goldsmith lies . O ye , who ...
Page 63
... pleased to express the grateful sense which Sir David Dalrymple has of Dr. Johnson's attention to his little specimen . The farther specimen will show , that " Even in an Edward he can see desert . ' " It gives me much pleasure to hear ...
... pleased to express the grateful sense which Sir David Dalrymple has of Dr. Johnson's attention to his little specimen . The farther specimen will show , that " Even in an Edward he can see desert . ' " It gives me much pleasure to hear ...
Page 64
... pleased with your notes of remembrance added to your names , for I hope I shall not easily forget them . " I have received four Erse books , without any direction , and suspect that they are intended for the Oxford library . If that is ...
... pleased with your notes of remembrance added to your names , for I hope I shall not easily forget them . " I have received four Erse books , without any direction , and suspect that they are intended for the Oxford library . If that is ...
Page 69
... pleased to accept of my best thanks for your ' Journey to the Hebrides , ' which came to me by last night's post . I did really ask the favour twice ; but you have been even with me in granting it so speedily . Bis dat qui cito dat ...
... pleased to accept of my best thanks for your ' Journey to the Hebrides , ' which came to me by last night's post . I did really ask the favour twice ; but you have been even with me in granting it so speedily . Bis dat qui cito dat ...
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