The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Band 4H. G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... knew that , if he were once launched from the metropolis , he would go forward very well ; and I got our common friends there to assist in setting him afloat . To Mrs. Thrale , in particular , whose enchantment over him seldom failed ...
... knew that , if he were once launched from the metropolis , he would go forward very well ; and I got our common friends there to assist in setting him afloat . To Mrs. Thrale , in particular , whose enchantment over him seldom failed ...
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... knew his opinion to be the same with my own , he kept himself aloof at a very critical period indeed , when the Douglas cause shook the sacred security of birthright in Scotland to its foundation ; a cause which , had it happened before ...
... knew his opinion to be the same with my own , he kept himself aloof at a very critical period indeed , when the Douglas cause shook the sacred security of birthright in Scotland to its foundation ; a cause which , had it happened before ...
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... knew himself to be dying , which I may some time or other communicate to the world . I shall not , however , extol him so very highly as Dr. Adam Smith does , who says , in a letter to M Strahan the printer ( not a confidential letter ...
... knew himself to be dying , which I may some time or other communicate to the world . I shall not , however , extol him so very highly as Dr. Adam Smith does , who says , in a letter to M Strahan the printer ( not a confidential letter ...
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... knew him before he began ( 1 ) How much a man deceives himself ! Johnson , who has shown such powers in other lines of literature , failed as a tragic poet.-C. to be better than other people ( smiling ) ; 24 . 1773 LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... knew him before he began ( 1 ) How much a man deceives himself ! Johnson , who has shown such powers in other lines of literature , failed as a tragic poet.-C. to be better than other people ( smiling ) ; 24 . 1773 LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... knew , had learned the Erse language , and ex- pressed his belief in the authenticity of Ossian's Poetry . Dr. Johnson took the opposite side of that perplexed question , and I was afraid the dispute would have run high between them ...
... knew , had learned the Erse language , and ex- pressed his belief in the authenticity of Ossian's Poetry . Dr. Johnson took the opposite side of that perplexed question , and I was afraid the dispute would have run high between them ...
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