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... anecdote of Rich- ardson . One day at his country house at Northend , where a large company was assembled at dinner , a gentleman who was just returned from Paris , willing to please Mr. Richardson , mentioned to him a very flattering ...
... anecdote of Rich- ardson . One day at his country house at Northend , where a large company was assembled at dinner , a gentleman who was just returned from Paris , willing to please Mr. Richardson , mentioned to him a very flattering ...
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... anecdote : Green and Guthrie , an Irishman and a Scotch- man , undertook a translation of Duhalde's History of China . Green said of Guthrie , that he knew no English ; and Guthrie of Green , that he knew no French : and these two ...
... anecdote : Green and Guthrie , an Irishman and a Scotch- man , undertook a translation of Duhalde's History of China . Green said of Guthrie , that he knew no English ; and Guthrie of Green , that he knew no French : and these two ...
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... anecdote on the above negociation . " In the case of the Lives of the Poets , which drew forth the encomium of Johnson , the bargain was for two hundred guineas , and the booksellers spontaneously added a third hundred . On this ...
... anecdote on the above negociation . " In the case of the Lives of the Poets , which drew forth the encomium of Johnson , the bargain was for two hundred guineas , and the booksellers spontaneously added a third hundred . On this ...
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... anecdotes and quotations ; and I observe the fair hand of Mrs. Thrale as one of his copyists of select passages . But he was principally indebted to my steady friend Mr. Isaac Reed of Staple - inn , whose extensive and accurate know ...
... anecdotes and quotations ; and I observe the fair hand of Mrs. Thrale as one of his copyists of select passages . But he was principally indebted to my steady friend Mr. Isaac Reed of Staple - inn , whose extensive and accurate know ...
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... anecdotes , with a quiet pleasant gravity that was exceedingly engaging . Never shall I forget the hours which I enjoyed with him at his apartments in the royal palace of Holy Rood House , and at his seat near Edin- burgh , which he ...
... anecdotes , with a quiet pleasant gravity that was exceedingly engaging . Never shall I forget the hours which I enjoyed with him at his apartments in the royal palace of Holy Rood House , and at his seat near Edin- burgh , which he ...
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