The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... John- son . We have preferred where we could to give each author's article whole and intact . Where this was not possible or de- sirable , and extracts must be resorted to , each passage is com- plete in itself , and no liberties have ...
... John- son . We have preferred where we could to give each author's article whole and intact . Where this was not possible or de- sirable , and extracts must be resorted to , each passage is com- plete in itself , and no liberties have ...
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... John- son's time . Happily , both these ladies knew and described Johnson in their early days , before Hannah's native sense and fun had been cramped and dulled , and before Fanny's style was ruined by affectation . Of all Johnson's ...
... John- son's time . Happily , both these ladies knew and described Johnson in their early days , before Hannah's native sense and fun had been cramped and dulled , and before Fanny's style was ruined by affectation . Of all Johnson's ...
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... John- son , or such knowledge of his sentiments as these pages can convey . To urge my distance from England as an excuse for the book's being ill written , would be ridiculous ; it might indeed serve as a just reason for my having ...
... John- son , or such knowledge of his sentiments as these pages can convey . To urge my distance from England as an excuse for the book's being ill written , would be ridiculous ; it might indeed serve as a just reason for my having ...
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... John- son good - humouredly , " I can fit you : I had an uncle , Cornelius Ford , who , upon a journey , stopped and read an inscription written on a stone he saw standing by the way - side , set up , as it proved , in honour of a man ...
... John- son good - humouredly , " I can fit you : I had an uncle , Cornelius Ford , who , upon a journey , stopped and read an inscription written on a stone he saw standing by the way - side , set up , as it proved , in honour of a man ...
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... John- son , is almost all that can be done by the writers of his life ; as his life , at least since my acquaintance with him , consisted in little else than talking , when he was not absolutely employed in some serious piece of work ...
... John- son , is almost all that can be done by the writers of his life ; as his life , at least since my acquaintance with him , consisted in little else than talking , when he was not absolutely employed in some serious piece of work ...
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