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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... wrote " The Rambler . " It would , therefore , have been uncandid in Blair , even supposing his cri- ticism to have been just , to have preserved it . 2 " WE were now treading that illustrious island , which was once the luminary of the ...
... wrote " The Rambler . " It would , therefore , have been uncandid in Blair , even supposing his cri- ticism to have been just , to have preserved it . 2 " WE were now treading that illustrious island , which was once the luminary of the ...
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... wrote his " Old Bachelor . " We viewed a remarkable natural curi- osity at Islam ; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock , not from immediate springs , but after having run for many miles under ground . Plott , in his ...
... wrote his " Old Bachelor . " We viewed a remarkable natural curi- osity at Islam ; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock , not from immediate springs , but after having run for many miles under ground . Plott , in his ...
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... wrote to me concerning it is so much to my credit as the biographer of Johnson , that my readers will , I hope , grant me their indulgence for here inserting it : " It is not once or twice going over it ( says Sir William ) , that will ...
... wrote to me concerning it is so much to my credit as the biographer of Johnson , that my readers will , I hope , grant me their indulgence for here inserting it : " It is not once or twice going over it ( says Sir William ) , that will ...
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... wrote at your return , had in it such a strain of cowardly caution as gave me no pleasure . I could not well do what you wished ; I had no need to vex you with a refusal . I have seen Mr ... and as to him have set all right , without ...
... wrote at your return , had in it such a strain of cowardly caution as gave me no pleasure . I could not well do what you wished ; I had no need to vex you with a refusal . I have seen Mr ... and as to him have set all right , without ...
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... wrote to Johnson , giving him an account of the decision of the Negro cause , by the court of Session , which by those who hold even the mildest and best regulated slavery in abomination , ( of which number I do not hesitate to declare ...
... wrote to Johnson , giving him an account of the decision of the Negro cause , by the court of Session , which by those who hold even the mildest and best regulated slavery in abomination , ( of which number I do not hesitate to declare ...
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