The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... wrote . Mr. Hector carried the sheets to the press , and corrected almost all the proof sheets , very few of which were even seen by Johnson . In this manner , with the aid of Mr. Hector's active friendship , the book was completed ...
... wrote . Mr. Hector carried the sheets to the press , and corrected almost all the proof sheets , very few of which were even seen by Johnson . In this manner , with the aid of Mr. Hector's active friendship , the book was completed ...
Page 51
... wrote Geila for Dancala , which cost two of our fathers their lives . " Every one acquainted with Johnson's manner will be sensible that there is no- thing of it here ; but that this sentence might have been composed by any other man ...
... wrote Geila for Dancala , which cost two of our fathers their lives . " Every one acquainted with Johnson's manner will be sensible that there is no- thing of it here ; but that this sentence might have been composed by any other man ...
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... wrote a copy of verses , which I have not been able to recoveri ; but with what facility and elegance he could warble the amorous lay , will appear from the fol- lowing lines , which he wrote for his friend Mr. Edmund Hector . Verses to ...
... wrote a copy of verses , which I have not been able to recoveri ; but with what facility and elegance he could warble the amorous lay , will appear from the fol- lowing lines , which he wrote for his friend Mr. Edmund Hector . Verses to ...
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... wrote the nonsense you now keep such a stir about . " Anecdotes , p . 34 . In my first edition I was induced to doubt the authenticity of this account , by the following circumstantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward , of ...
... wrote the nonsense you now keep such a stir about . " Anecdotes , p . 34 . In my first edition I was induced to doubt the authenticity of this account , by the following circumstantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward , of ...
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... academy , there can be no doubt that he was insensibly furnishing his mind with various knowledge ; but I have not discovered that he wrote any thing except a great part of his tragedy of Irene ÆTAT . 26. ] 63 DR . JOHNSON .
... academy , there can be no doubt that he was insensibly furnishing his mind with various knowledge ; but I have not discovered that he wrote any thing except a great part of his tragedy of Irene ÆTAT . 26. ] 63 DR . JOHNSON .
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