The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... anecdote I insert in Dr. Burney's own words . " Dr. Burney related to Dr. Johnson the partiality which his writings had excited in a friend of Dr. Burney's , the late Mr. Bewley 2 , well known in Norfolk by the name of the Philo- sopher ...
... anecdote I insert in Dr. Burney's own words . " Dr. Burney related to Dr. Johnson the partiality which his writings had excited in a friend of Dr. Burney's , the late Mr. Bewley 2 , well known in Norfolk by the name of the Philo- sopher ...
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... Anecdotes . - ED . ] 4 [ The play of the Walloons , acted about this time ; but the third night was the 2d of May.-ED. ] 5 [ Sheridan . - ED . ] 6 [ Theatre , Drury - lane , sold by Garrick to Sheridan . - ED . ] p . 238 . Johnson thus ...
... Anecdotes . - ED . ] 4 [ The play of the Walloons , acted about this time ; but the third night was the 2d of May.-ED. ] 5 [ Sheridan . - ED . ] 6 [ Theatre , Drury - lane , sold by Garrick to Sheridan . - ED . ] p . 238 . Johnson thus ...
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... Anecdotes , ' and you will hardly thank a lover of literary history for telling you that he has been much informed and gratified . I wish 6 This venerable mansion has since [ Sept. 1793 ] been totally destroyed by fire . - MALONE ...
... Anecdotes , ' and you will hardly thank a lover of literary history for telling you that he has been much informed and gratified . I wish 6 This venerable mansion has since [ Sept. 1793 ] been totally destroyed by fire . - MALONE ...
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... anecdote interesting by giving it " a local habitation and a name . This " very good preacher " was , he says , the celebrated Dr. Edward Pocock , who had a living at Childry , near Oxford . One of his Oxford friends , as he travelled ...
... anecdote interesting by giving it " a local habitation and a name . This " very good preacher " was , he says , the celebrated Dr. Edward Pocock , who had a living at Childry , near Oxford . One of his Oxford friends , as he travelled ...
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... anecdote , told by Sir J. Hawkins , relates . Johnson would frequently adjourn with Psalmanazar from his lodgings to a neighbouring alehouse , and , in the common room , converse with him on subjects of importance . In one of these ...
... anecdote , told by Sir J. Hawkins , relates . Johnson would frequently adjourn with Psalmanazar from his lodgings to a neighbouring alehouse , and , in the common room , converse with him on subjects of importance . In one of these ...
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