The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
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... common friend Mr. Elphinston , Shaw had been introduced to Johnson , ' who eagerly interrogated the young Highlander " on his knowledge of Erse , and whether the Poems of Fingal existed in that language . " The candour of Shaw , who ...
... common friend Mr. Elphinston , Shaw had been introduced to Johnson , ' who eagerly interrogated the young Highlander " on his knowledge of Erse , and whether the Poems of Fingal existed in that language . " The candour of Shaw , who ...
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... common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ingenious ; all these qualities I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery , ascribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride , in ...
... common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ingenious ; all these qualities I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery , ascribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride , in ...
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... common reader ; they are full of good sense and good - nature , but in forms too didactic and ponderous to be very amusing . In the extracts which I have made from Mrs. Thrale's correspondence , I have been guided entirely by the object ...
... common reader ; they are full of good sense and good - nature , but in forms too didactic and ponderous to be very amusing . In the extracts which I have made from Mrs. Thrale's correspondence , I have been guided entirely by the object ...
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... common as well as his most confidential intercourses - all his most secret communion with his own conscience — and even the solemn and contrite exercises of his piety , have been divulged and exhibited to the " garish eye " of the world ...
... common as well as his most confidential intercourses - all his most secret communion with his own conscience — and even the solemn and contrite exercises of his piety , have been divulged and exhibited to the " garish eye " of the world ...
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... common judges of property , but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid ; " and , in the Idler ( No. 65 ) , he calls a Commissioner of Excise " one of the lowest of all human beings . " This violence of language seems so ...
... common judges of property , but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid ; " and , in the Idler ( No. 65 ) , he calls a Commissioner of Excise " one of the lowest of all human beings . " This violence of language seems so ...
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