The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
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... admirable art of recording conversation . It is one of extreme difficulty . If any one be inclined to question this , let him try , when perchance he meets an eminent man , to record specimens of his conversa- tion , and not merely with ...
... admirable art of recording conversation . It is one of extreme difficulty . If any one be inclined to question this , let him try , when perchance he meets an eminent man , to record specimens of his conversa- tion , and not merely with ...
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... admirable works .. which will be read and admired as long as the English lan- guage shall be spoken or understood . " This , be it remarked , Letters to and from Dr. Samuel Johnson , vol . i . , p . 284 . is not the language of ...
... admirable works .. which will be read and admired as long as the English lan- guage shall be spoken or understood . " This , be it remarked , Letters to and from Dr. Samuel Johnson , vol . i . , p . 284 . is not the language of ...
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... admirable literary abilities , exercised for a great and good end . But the greater work , which had occupied his heart and soul and mind for many a long year , was being actively prepared . On the fly - sheet of the third edition of ...
... admirable literary abilities , exercised for a great and good end . But the greater work , which had occupied his heart and soul and mind for many a long year , was being actively prepared . On the fly - sheet of the third edition of ...
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... admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common ...
... admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common ...
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... admired him . Yet , luminous as he was upon the whole , you perceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition , all the little pecu- liarities and slight blemishes which marked the literary Colossus . Your very warm ...
... admired him . Yet , luminous as he was upon the whole , you perceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition , all the little pecu- liarities and slight blemishes which marked the literary Colossus . Your very warm ...
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