The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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Page viii
... seems to have been hardly a day when the friends did not meet in the painting room or in general society ; and that Reynolds's conception of Johnson's character was lofty in the extreme , is proved by the portrait from his hand . But we ...
... seems to have been hardly a day when the friends did not meet in the painting room or in general society ; and that Reynolds's conception of Johnson's character was lofty in the extreme , is proved by the portrait from his hand . But we ...
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... seem , my Lord , to be concerned at the judicious appre- hension , that while you are sapping the foundations of royalty at home , and propagating here the dangerous doctrine of resist- ance ; the distance of America may secure its ...
... seem , my Lord , to be concerned at the judicious appre- hension , that while you are sapping the foundations of royalty at home , and propagating here the dangerous doctrine of resist- ance ; the distance of America may secure its ...
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... seem'd to chuse , Her house , her friends , her business , or the muse . Admir'd and loved , the theme of general praise , All to such virtue wish'd a length of days : But sad reverse ! with slow consuming pains , Th ' envenom'd cancer ...
... seem'd to chuse , Her house , her friends , her business , or the muse . Admir'd and loved , the theme of general praise , All to such virtue wish'd a length of days : But sad reverse ! with slow consuming pains , Th ' envenom'd cancer ...
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... seem to me to be composed with peculiar spirit , but all traces of the wit and the wanderer were probably worn out before he undertook the work . His pious and patient endurance of a tedious illness , ending in an exemplary death ...
... seem to me to be composed with peculiar spirit , but all traces of the wit and the wanderer were probably worn out before he undertook the work . His pious and patient endurance of a tedious illness , ending in an exemplary death ...
Page 74
... seem- ing to repine at the success of Beattie's Essay on Truth-- " Here's such a stir ( said he ) about a fellow that has written one book , and I have written many . " " Ah , Doctor ( says his friend ) , there go two - and - forty ...
... seem- ing to repine at the success of Beattie's Essay on Truth-- " Here's such a stir ( said he ) about a fellow that has written one book , and I have written many . " " Ah , Doctor ( says his friend ) , there go two - and - forty ...
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