The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Derby, 1826 |
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... hands by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford , Dr. Adams , now master of Pembroke college , told me , I was the best qualified ÆTAT . 3-19 . ] 29 DR . JOHNSON . The two years which he spent at home, after ...
... hands by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford , Dr. Adams , now master of Pembroke college , told me , I was the best qualified ÆTAT . 3-19 . ] 29 DR . JOHNSON . The two years which he spent at home, after ...
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... hands , To bloom a while , factitious heat demands : Though glowing Maro a faint warmth supplies , The sickly blossom in the hot - house dies ; By Johnson's genial culture , art , and toil , Its root strikes deep , and owns the fost ...
... hands , To bloom a while , factitious heat demands : Though glowing Maro a faint warmth supplies , The sickly blossom in the hot - house dies ; By Johnson's genial culture , art , and toil , Its root strikes deep , and owns the fost ...
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... hands a state of his case , written in Latin . Dr. Swinfen was so much struck with the extraordinary acute- ness , research , and eloquence of this paper , that in his zeal for his godson he showed it to several people . His daugh- ter ...
... hands a state of his case , written in Latin . Dr. Swinfen was so much struck with the extraordinary acute- ness , research , and eloquence of this paper , that in his zeal for his godson he showed it to several people . His daugh- ter ...
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... hand from Taylor , till his poverty being so extreme , that his shoes were worn out , and his feet appeared through them , he saw that this humiliating circumstance was perceived by the Christ - church men , and he came no more . He was ...
... hand from Taylor , till his poverty being so extreme , that his shoes were worn out , and his feet appeared through them , he saw that this humiliating circumstance was perceived by the Christ - church men , and he came no more . He was ...
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... hand in this passage of the Dedica- " Here , " says Murphy , in his Essay on the Life and Genius of Johnson , we see the infant Hercules . " - ED . tion to John Warren , esq . of Pembrokeshire , 52 [ 1733 . THE LIFE OF.
... hand in this passage of the Dedica- " Here , " says Murphy , in his Essay on the Life and Genius of Johnson , we see the infant Hercules . " - ED . tion to John Warren , esq . of Pembrokeshire , 52 [ 1733 . THE LIFE OF.
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