The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.W. P. Ninno, Hay & Mitchell, 1890 - 562 pages |
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... afterwards lost the greatest part , by engaging unsuccessfully in a manufacture of parchment . He was a zealous high - churchman and royalist , and retained his attachment to the unfortunate house of Stuart , though he reconciled ...
... afterwards lost the greatest part , by engaging unsuccessfully in a manufacture of parchment . He was a zealous high - churchman and royalist , and retained his attachment to the unfortunate house of Stuart , though he reconciled ...
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... afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits : for , excepting his orthographic works , everything which Dr. Johnson wrote was poetry , whose essence consists , not in num- bers or in jingle , but in the strength and glow of a fancy ...
... afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits : for , excepting his orthographic works , everything which Dr. Johnson wrote was poetry , whose essence consists , not in num- bers or in jingle , but in the strength and glow of a fancy ...
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... afterwards Bishop of Lincoln , whose character in the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in ...
... afterwards Bishop of Lincoln , whose character in the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in ...
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... afterwards the gratification to hear that the old gentleman , who lived to a very advanced age , mentioned it as one of the most memorable events of his life , that ' he was very near having that great man for his scholar . ' Or where ...
... afterwards the gratification to hear that the old gentleman , who lived to a very advanced age , mentioned it as one of the most memorable events of his life , that ' he was very near having that great man for his scholar . ' Or where ...
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... afterwards presided over Pembroke College with universal esteem , told me he was present , and gave me some account of what passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father , who had anxiously ...
... afterwards presided over Pembroke College with universal esteem , told me he was present , and gave me some account of what passed on the night of Johnson's arrival at Oxford . On that evening , his father , who had anxiously ...
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