The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... wrote to [ Mrs. ] Gastrel , and received a kind letter from Hector . At night Lowe . Pr [ ayed ] with Francis . " 31. — Easter - Day . Read 15 pages of the Bible . Cætera alibi . " 3 On the foregoing curious passage- " Mar. 3 20 . The ...
... wrote to [ Mrs. ] Gastrel , and received a kind letter from Hector . At night Lowe . Pr [ ayed ] with Francis . " 31. — Easter - Day . Read 15 pages of the Bible . Cætera alibi . " 3 On the foregoing curious passage- " Mar. 3 20 . The ...
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... wrote to him at different dates ; regretted that I could not come to London this spring , but hoped we should meet somewhere in the summer ; men- tioned the state of my affairs , and suggested hopes of some preferment ; informed him ...
... wrote to him at different dates ; regretted that I could not come to London this spring , but hoped we should meet somewhere in the summer ; men- tioned the state of my affairs , and suggested hopes of some preferment ; informed him ...
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... wrote to him , that in " The Morning Chronicle , " a passage in " The Beauties of Johnson , " article Death , had been pointed out as supposed by some readers to recommend suicide , the words being " To die is the fate of man ; but to ...
... wrote to him , that in " The Morning Chronicle , " a passage in " The Beauties of Johnson , " article Death , had been pointed out as supposed by some readers to recommend suicide , the words being " To die is the fate of man ; but to ...
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... wrote him a very polite and grateful letter . " DR . JOHNSON TO MRS . BOSWELL . " London , 7th September , 1782 . " DEAR LADY , —I have not often received so much pleasure as from your invitation to Auchinleck . The journey thither and ...
... wrote him a very polite and grateful letter . " DR . JOHNSON TO MRS . BOSWELL . " London , 7th September , 1782 . " DEAR LADY , —I have not often received so much pleasure as from your invitation to Auchinleck . The journey thither and ...
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... MALONE : [ and died May , 1822 , in a very strange way , having had poison , by mistake for medicine , administered to him by the hand of his lady.-ED. ] father wrote the first two volumes : and in another 76 1783. - ETAT . 74 .
... MALONE : [ and died May , 1822 , in a very strange way , having had poison , by mistake for medicine , administered to him by the hand of his lady.-ED. ] father wrote the first two volumes : and in another 76 1783. - ETAT . 74 .
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