The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order ; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons ; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published ; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Band 4J. Richardson, 1821 |
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... LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . Quo fit ut omnis Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella Vita senis-- Horut . A NEW EDITION . COPIOUS NOTES AND BIOGRAPHICAL ...
... LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . Quo fit ut omnis Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella Vita senis-- Horut . A NEW EDITION . COPIOUS NOTES AND BIOGRAPHICAL ...
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... literary anecdotes , and the occurrences of their own times : the cele- brated Huetius has published an entertaining volume upon this plan , De rebus ad eum pertinentibus . ' In the fourth class we have the journalists , temporal and ...
... literary anecdotes , and the occurrences of their own times : the cele- brated Huetius has published an entertaining volume upon this plan , De rebus ad eum pertinentibus . ' In the fourth class we have the journalists , temporal and ...
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... literary Temple of Fame had been assigned to " a friend to the constitution in Church and State . " We should not then have had it too much crowded with obscure dissenting teachers , doubtless men of merit and worth , but not quite to ...
... literary Temple of Fame had been assigned to " a friend to the constitution in Church and State . " We should not then have had it too much crowded with obscure dissenting teachers , doubtless men of merit and worth , but not quite to ...
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... literary fame , I regretted to him one day that an eminent Judge had nothing of it , and therefore would leave no perpetual monument of himself to posterity ; " Alas , sir ( said Johnson ) , what a mass of confusion should we have , if ...
... literary fame , I regretted to him one day that an eminent Judge had nothing of it , and therefore would leave no perpetual monument of himself to posterity ; " Alas , sir ( said Johnson ) , what a mass of confusion should we have , if ...
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... literary character of his family : he was a genteel man , but did not keep up the dignity of his rank . He was so generally civil , that nobody thanked him for it . " " Did we not hear so much said of Jack Wilkes , we should think more ...
... literary character of his family : he was a genteel man , but did not keep up the dignity of his rank . He was so generally civil , that nobody thanked him for it . " " Did we not hear so much said of Jack Wilkes , we should think more ...
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