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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... wonderful abilities ; but exclaimed , " Is he like Burke , who winds into a fubject like a ferpent ? " " But , ( faid I , ) Johnfon is the Hercules who ftrangled ferpents in his cradle . " I dined with Dr. Johnfon at General Paoli's ...
... wonderful abilities ; but exclaimed , " Is he like Burke , who winds into a fubject like a ferpent ? " " But , ( faid I , ) Johnfon is the Hercules who ftrangled ferpents in his cradle . " I dined with Dr. Johnfon at General Paoli's ...
Page 125
... wonderful deed : he'll call the landlord of the first inn on the road ; and , after a fuitable preface upon mortality and the uncer- tainty of life , will tell him that he should not delay making his will ; and here , Sir , will he fay ...
... wonderful deed : he'll call the landlord of the first inn on the road ; and , after a fuitable preface upon mortality and the uncer- tainty of life , will tell him that he should not delay making his will ; and here , Sir , will he fay ...
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... wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas , and prefented its authour with a gold medal . Some years ago , at a coffee - houfe in Oxford , I called to him , Mr. Sheridan , Mr. Sheridan , how came 3 This doubt has been much agitated ...
... wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas , and prefented its authour with a gold medal . Some years ago , at a coffee - houfe in Oxford , I called to him , Mr. Sheridan , Mr. Sheridan , how came 3 This doubt has been much agitated ...
Page 209
... wonderful that he has been able to write fuch va- riety of them . " At Mr. Beauclerk's , where I fupped , was Mr ... wonderfully free from that na- tionality ; but fo it happens , that you employ the only Scotch fhoe - black in London ...
... wonderful that he has been able to write fuch va- riety of them . " At Mr. Beauclerk's , where I fupped , was Mr ... wonderfully free from that na- tionality ; but fo it happens , that you employ the only Scotch fhoe - black in London ...
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... wonderful that a man , who for forty years had lived with the great and the witty , fhould have acquired fo ill the talents of converfation ; and he had- but half to furnish ; P 3 for 1775 . Etat . 66 . for one half of DR . JOHNSON . 213.
... wonderful that a man , who for forty years had lived with the great and the witty , fhould have acquired fo ill the talents of converfation ; and he had- but half to furnish ; P 3 for 1775 . Etat . 66 . for one half of DR . JOHNSON . 213.
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