The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... affection for Topham Beauclerk was so great , that when Beauclerk was labouring under that severe illness which at last occasioned his death , Johnson said , ( with a voice faltering with emotion , ) Sir , I would walk to the extent of ...
... affection for Topham Beauclerk was so great , that when Beauclerk was labouring under that severe illness which at last occasioned his death , Johnson said , ( with a voice faltering with emotion , ) Sir , I would walk to the extent of ...
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... affection . Yet , with all the ardour of sympathetick genius , Johnson has done that spon- taneously and ably , which , by some writers , had been before attempted injudi- ciously , and which , by others , from whom more successful ...
... affection . Yet , with all the ardour of sympathetick genius , Johnson has done that spon- taneously and ably , which , by some writers , had been before attempted injudi- ciously , and which , by others , from whom more successful ...
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... affections Johuson and lord Lyttelton were rival candidates . See Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes , p . 160. After mentioning the death of Mrs. Fitz- herbert , ( who was a daughter of Mr. Meynell , of Bradley in Derbyshire , ) and Johnson's ...
... affections Johuson and lord Lyttelton were rival candidates . See Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes , p . 160. After mentioning the death of Mrs. Fitz- herbert , ( who was a daughter of Mr. Meynell , of Bradley in Derbyshire , ) and Johnson's ...
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... affection for her induced him to preserve and bind up in a volume thirty - three of her letters , which were purchased from the widow of his servant Francis Barber , and published by R. Phillips in 1805 . But highly as he valued this ...
... affection for her induced him to preserve and bind up in a volume thirty - three of her letters , which were purchased from the widow of his servant Francis Barber , and published by R. Phillips in 1805 . But highly as he valued this ...
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... affectionate attachment visibly and certainly decaying into dissolution , must be of a hard and obstinate frame . To all the other excellencies of Night Thoughts , let me add the great and peculiar one , that they contain not only the ...
... affectionate attachment visibly and certainly decaying into dissolution , must be of a hard and obstinate frame . To all the other excellencies of Night Thoughts , let me add the great and peculiar one , that they contain not only the ...
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acquaintance admirable Anecdotes answered appeared Ashbourne asked asthma attention believe Bennet Langton bishop Brocklesby Burke Burney character club consider conversation curiosity dear sir death dined dropsy edition eminent English entertained expressed favour Francis Barber gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give glad happy honour hope humble servant JAMES BOSWELL Johnson kind lady Langton late learned letter Lichfield literary live London lord lordship LUCY PORTER Lusiad madam Malone manner mentioned merit mind never observed occasion once opinion Oxford perhaps person pleased pleasure poet Pope pounds praise prayers publick published racter recollect remark respect reverend Samuel Johnson Scotland seems sir John sir John Hawkins sir Joshua Reynolds suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told translation verses whig Wilkes WILLIAM GERARD HAMILTON wish write written wrote young