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... favour , the following letter : - " SIR , " Mr. William Shaw , the gentleman from whom you will receive this , is a studious and literary man : he is a stranger and will 2 Memoirs , p . 159-64 . 1 Vol . iii . , p . 349-50 . 1 Life , vol ...
... favour , the following letter : - " SIR , " Mr. William Shaw , the gentleman from whom you will receive this , is a studious and literary man : he is a stranger and will 2 Memoirs , p . 159-64 . 1 Vol . iii . , p . 349-50 . 1 Life , vol ...
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... favoured with contributions from Mrs. Desmoulins , Thomas Davies of Covent Garden , and , above all , from Mr. Elphinston , who had introduced him to Johnson . Omitting for the present any allusion to the " Journal of the Tour to the ...
... favoured with contributions from Mrs. Desmoulins , Thomas Davies of Covent Garden , and , above all , from Mr. Elphinston , who had introduced him to Johnson . Omitting for the present any allusion to the " Journal of the Tour to the ...
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... favours received , I have this opportunity , my dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness , -for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me , -for the ...
... favours received , I have this opportunity , my dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness , -for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me , -for the ...
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... favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my work . But I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. Malone , who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my manuscript , and ...
... favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my work . But I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. Malone , who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my manuscript , and ...
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... favoured me with his own copy of my book , with a number of notes , of which I have availed myself . On the first leaf I found , in his lordship's hand- writing , an inscription of such high commendation , that even I , vain as I am ...
... favoured me with his own copy of my book , with a number of notes , of which I have availed myself . On the first leaf I found , in his lordship's hand- writing , an inscription of such high commendation , that even I , vain as I am ...
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