The Life of Samuel Johnson, Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondance and Conversations, ... and Original Pieces of His Composition, Band 4Baynes and son, 1826 |
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... obliged to lay out ten pounds . " " 66 ' When in good humour , he would talk of his own writ- ings with a wonderful frankness and candour , and would even criticise them with the closest severity . One day , having read over one of his ...
... obliged to lay out ten pounds . " " 66 ' When in good humour , he would talk of his own writ- ings with a wonderful frankness and candour , and would even criticise them with the closest severity . One day , having read over one of his ...
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... obliged to you for having asked me this evening . Parr is a fair man ' . I do not know when I have had an occasion of such free contro- versy . It is remarkable how much of a man's life may pass without meeting with any instance of this ...
... obliged to you for having asked me this evening . Parr is a fair man ' . I do not know when I have had an occasion of such free contro- versy . It is remarkable how much of a man's life may pass without meeting with any instance of this ...
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... obliged literally to pray continually : had the madness turned the y His profound adoration of the Great First Cause was such as to set him above that " philosophy and vain deceit " with which men of narrow concep- tions have been ...
... obliged literally to pray continually : had the madness turned the y His profound adoration of the Great First Cause was such as to set him above that " philosophy and vain deceit " with which men of narrow concep- tions have been ...
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... will send it from Streatham . " " Clarendon is here returned . " " By some accident , I laid your note upon Duke up so safely that I cannot rary enquiry and obliging disposition rendered him useful to Johnson ÆTAT . 72. ] 29 DR . JOHNSON .
... will send it from Streatham . " " Clarendon is here returned . " " By some accident , I laid your note upon Duke up so safely that I cannot rary enquiry and obliging disposition rendered him useful to Johnson ÆTAT . 72. ] 29 DR . JOHNSON .
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... obliging disposition rendered him useful to Johnson . Mr. Steevens appears , from the papers in my possession , to have supplied him with some anecdotes and quotations ; and I observe the fair hand of Mrs. Thrale as one of his copyists ...
... obliging disposition rendered him useful to Johnson . Mr. Steevens appears , from the papers in my possession , to have supplied him with some anecdotes and quotations ; and I observe the fair hand of Mrs. Thrale as one of his copyists ...
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