The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 7J. Murray, 1839 |
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... kind enough to put in writing , as an answer to that letter , what you have now said , and as Lord Percy is to dine with us at General Paoli's soon , I will take an opportunity to read the correspondence in his lordship's presence ...
... kind enough to put in writing , as an answer to that letter , what you have now said , and as Lord Percy is to dine with us at General Paoli's soon , I will take an opportunity to read the correspondence in his lordship's presence ...
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... kind of butt , to whom the wits of the court used to attribute all manner of absurdities . C. - ( 2 ) See ante , Vol . IV . p . 23. - C. ( 3 ) See this question fully investigated in the notes upon the " Journal of a Tour to the ...
... kind of butt , to whom the wits of the court used to attribute all manner of absurdities . C. - ( 2 ) See ante , Vol . IV . p . 23. - C. ( 3 ) See this question fully investigated in the notes upon the " Journal of a Tour to the ...
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... kind of open discussion . ' " We may fairly institute a criticism between Shak- speare and Corneille , as they both had , though in a different degree , the lights of a latter age . It is not so just between the Greek dramatic writers ...
... kind of open discussion . ' " We may fairly institute a criticism between Shak- speare and Corneille , as they both had , though in a different degree , the lights of a latter age . It is not so just between the Greek dramatic writers ...
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