The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.W. P. Ninno, Hay & Mitchell, 1890 - 562 pages |
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... wrote , and said , and thought ; by which man- kind are enabled , as it were , to see him live , and to ' live o'er each scene'1 with him , as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life . Had his other friends been as ...
... wrote , and said , and thought ; by which man- kind are enabled , as it were , to see him live , and to ' live o'er each scene'1 with him , as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life . Had his other friends been as ...
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... wrote . A certain apprehension arising from novelty made him write his first exercise at college twice over ; but he never took that trouble with any other composition ; and we shall see that his most excellent works were struck off at ...
... wrote . A certain apprehension arising from novelty made him write his first exercise at college twice over ; but he never took that trouble with any other composition ; and we shall see that his most excellent works were struck off at ...
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... wrote a copy of verses , which I have not been 1 Miss Cave , the grand - niece of Mr. Edward Cave , has obligingly shown me the originals of this and the other letters of Dr. Johnson to him , which were first published in the ...
... wrote a copy of verses , which I have not been 1 Miss Cave , the grand - niece of Mr. Edward Cave , has obligingly shown me the originals of this and the other letters of Dr. Johnson to him , which were first published in the ...
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... wrote the nonsense you now keep such a stir about . ' - Anecdotes , p . 34 . In my first edition I was induced to doubt the authenticity of this account , by the following circum- stantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward ...
... wrote the nonsense you now keep such a stir about . ' - Anecdotes , p . 34 . In my first edition I was induced to doubt the authenticity of this account , by the following circum- stantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward ...
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... wrote anything except a great part of his tragedy of Irene . Mr. Peter Garrick , the elder brother of David , told me that he remembered Johnson's borrowing the Turkish History of him , in order to form his play from it . When he had ...
... wrote anything except a great part of his tragedy of Irene . Mr. Peter Garrick , the elder brother of David , told me that he remembered Johnson's borrowing the Turkish History of him , in order to form his play from it . When he had ...
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