The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.W. P. Ninno, Hay & Mitchell, 1890 - 562 pages |
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... Langton ; discussing public affairs with the King , negotiating the sale of a brewery , or caressing with ponderous playfulness a Hebridean lady by the hour together . No man was so compelled , to use the delicate phrase of Antoninus ...
... Langton ; discussing public affairs with the King , negotiating the sale of a brewery , or caressing with ponderous playfulness a Hebridean lady by the hour together . No man was so compelled , to use the delicate phrase of Antoninus ...
Page ix
... Langton Family -Institution of the Literary Club - Diploma of LL.D. from Trinity College , Dublin CHAP . XVII . 1765-1766.- Introduction to the Thrales - Edition of Shakspeare - Goldsmith's Traveller and Deserted Village 4 CHAP . XVIII ...
... Langton Family -Institution of the Literary Club - Diploma of LL.D. from Trinity College , Dublin CHAP . XVII . 1765-1766.- Introduction to the Thrales - Edition of Shakspeare - Goldsmith's Traveller and Deserted Village 4 CHAP . XVIII ...
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... Langton - Boswell's Arrival in London - Mrs . Thrale's altered Con- duct CHAP . XLV . 1778. - Soame Jenyns - Mr . Topham Beauclerk - Wesley's Ghost Story - Mrs . Knowles 373 CHAP . LXIL 1784. - Lord Chancellor Thurlow's CHAP . XLVI ...
... Langton - Boswell's Arrival in London - Mrs . Thrale's altered Con- duct CHAP . XLV . 1778. - Soame Jenyns - Mr . Topham Beauclerk - Wesley's Ghost Story - Mrs . Knowles 373 CHAP . LXIL 1784. - Lord Chancellor Thurlow's CHAP . XLVI ...
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... Langton to take a copy of it for himself . The whole of it is rich in thought and ima- gery , and happy expressions ; and of the disjecta membra scattered throughout , and as yet un- arranged , a good dramatic poet might avail himself ...
... Langton to take a copy of it for himself . The whole of it is rich in thought and ima- gery , and happy expressions ; and of the disjecta membra scattered throughout , and as yet un- arranged , a good dramatic poet might avail himself ...
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... Langton . - BOSWELL . That of the warrior , Charles of Sweden , is , I think , as highly finished a picture as can pos- sibly be conceived . Were all the other excellences of this poem annihilated , it must ever have our grateful reve ...
... Langton . - BOSWELL . That of the warrior , Charles of Sweden , is , I think , as highly finished a picture as can pos- sibly be conceived . Were all the other excellences of this poem annihilated , it must ever have our grateful reve ...
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