The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
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... afterwards known by the name of Conversation Cooke , from a poem of his entitled Conversation . " The author professes to give but a " sketch warm from the Life ; " but , sketch though it be , it contains the main facts of Johnson's ...
... afterwards known by the name of Conversation Cooke , from a poem of his entitled Conversation . " The author professes to give but a " sketch warm from the Life ; " but , sketch though it be , it contains the main facts of Johnson's ...
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... afterwards appeared as supplements to the " Works " show that not conscientious care , but greedy haste , had been the motive power , alike of the biographer and the publishers , in the work which they had produced . The Life , indeed ...
... afterwards appeared as supplements to the " Works " show that not conscientious care , but greedy haste , had been the motive power , alike of the biographer and the publishers , in the work which they had produced . The Life , indeed ...
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... of the day , but even in general society he would occasionally take a note of any thing remarkable that occurred ; and he afterwards spared no trouble in arranging and supplying the PREFACE TO MR . CROKER'S EDITION . liii.
... of the day , but even in general society he would occasionally take a note of any thing remarkable that occurred ; and he afterwards spared no trouble in arranging and supplying the PREFACE TO MR . CROKER'S EDITION . liii.
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... afterwards spared no trouble in arranging and supplying the in- evitable deficiencies of these hasty memoranda.1 Nor were his talents inconsiderable . He had looked a good deal into books , and more into the world . The narrative ...
... afterwards spared no trouble in arranging and supplying the in- evitable deficiencies of these hasty memoranda.1 Nor were his talents inconsiderable . He had looked a good deal into books , and more into the world . The narrative ...
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... afterwards lost the greatest part , by en- gaging unsuccessfully in a manufacture of parchment . He was a zealous high - churchman and royalist , and retained his 1 Extract of a letter , dated Trentham , St. Peter's Day , 1716 , written ...
... afterwards lost the greatest part , by en- gaging unsuccessfully in a manufacture of parchment . He was a zealous high - churchman and royalist , and retained his 1 Extract of a letter , dated Trentham , St. Peter's Day , 1716 , written ...
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