The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 3Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... writing the proposals for his dictionary , and also a little in the dictionary itself TM . I also learnt from Dr. Lawrence , but was then grown more stubborn . " A curious incident happened to - day , while Mr. Thrale and that he seemed ...
... writing the proposals for his dictionary , and also a little in the dictionary itself TM . I also learnt from Dr. Lawrence , but was then grown more stubborn . " A curious incident happened to - day , while Mr. Thrale and that he seemed ...
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... writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then ... write several of the lives ; which , as we are told , he accordingly performed . He was further useful in striking ...
... writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then ... write several of the lives ; which , as we are told , he accordingly performed . He was further useful in striking ...
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... write chiefly from their own minds . The Monthly reviewers are duller men , and are glad to read the books through . " He talked of lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an au- thor ; observing , that " he was thirty years in preparing ...
... write chiefly from their own minds . The Monthly reviewers are duller men , and are glad to read the books through . " He talked of lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an au- thor ; observing , that " he was thirty years in preparing ...
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... write that half , yet not a half of that half is good . One of the finest pieces in the English language is the paper on novelty , yet we do not hear it talked of . It was written by Grove , a dissenting teacher . " He would not , I ...
... write that half , yet not a half of that half is good . One of the finest pieces in the English language is the paper on novelty , yet we do not hear it talked of . It was written by Grove , a dissenting teacher . " He would not , I ...
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... write was a distinction at first ; but we see when reading and writing have become The author did not recollect , that of the books preserved , ( and an infinite number was lost , ) all were confined to two languages . In modern times ...
... write was a distinction at first ; but we see when reading and writing have become The author did not recollect , that of the books preserved , ( and an infinite number was lost , ) all were confined to two languages . In modern times ...
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