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 vii
... that when Mrs. Thrale wrote of this friend ( doubtless Mr. Musgrave ) from Bath , in May , 1776 , Dr. Campbell was not at Bath , but in Ireland . Extracts from Hannah More's letters and Fanny Burney's diary , PREFATORY NOTICE . vii.
... that when Mrs. Thrale wrote of this friend ( doubtless Mr. Musgrave ) from Bath , in May , 1776 , Dr. Campbell was not at Bath , but in Ireland . Extracts from Hannah More's letters and Fanny Burney's diary , PREFATORY NOTICE . vii.
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... wrote over but one copy , and that coarsely ; and having given it into the hand of the tutor who stood to receive it as he passed , was obliged to begin by chance and continue on how he could , for he had got but little of it by heart ...
... wrote over but one copy , and that coarsely ; and having given it into the hand of the tutor who stood to receive it as he passed , was obliged to begin by chance and continue on how he could , for he had got but little of it by heart ...
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... wrote the nonsense you now keep such a stir about . " Upon revising these Anecdotes , it is impossible not to be struck with shame and regret that one treasured no more of them up ; but no experience is sufficient to cure the vice of ...
... wrote the nonsense you now keep such a stir about . " Upon revising these Anecdotes , it is impossible not to be struck with shame and regret that one treasured no more of them up ; but no experience is sufficient to cure the vice of ...
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... wrote the eastern story of Gelaleddin . Of the allegorical papers in the " Rambler , " Labour and Rest was his favourite ; but Serotinus , the man who returns late in life to receive honours in his native country , and meets with ...
... wrote the eastern story of Gelaleddin . Of the allegorical papers in the " Rambler , " Labour and Rest was his favourite ; but Serotinus , the man who returns late in life to receive honours in his native country , and meets with ...
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... wrote with his feet . " Of a modern Martial , when it came out : " There are in these verses ( says Dr. Johnson ) too much folly for madness , I think , and too much madness for folly . " If , however , Mr. Johnson lamented , that the ...
... wrote with his feet . " Of a modern Martial , when it came out : " There are in these verses ( says Dr. Johnson ) too much folly for madness , I think , and too much madness for folly . " If , however , Mr. Johnson lamented , that the ...
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