The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
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Page vi
... kind offices of their 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 ...
... kind offices of their 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 ...
Page ix
... kind , genial , and considerate in his estimate of character , was impelled , reluctantly we believe , to turn aside and animadvert on her not infrequent inaccura- cies , and her somewhat heartless levities , in her delineations of ...
... kind , genial , and considerate in his estimate of character , was impelled , reluctantly we believe , to turn aside and animadvert on her not infrequent inaccura- cies , and her somewhat heartless levities , in her delineations of ...
Page xxxv
... kind approbation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the head of a college , as a writer , and as a most amiable man , had known Johnson from his early years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that ...
... kind approbation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the head of a college , as a writer , and as a most amiable man , had known Johnson from his early years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that ...
Page xlvii
... kind as to communicate Dr. Johnson's letters to that lady . Mr. Langton , the grandson of Mr. Bennet Langton , has furnished some of his grandfather's papers , and several original MSS . of Dr. Johnson's Latin poetry , which have ...
... kind as to communicate Dr. Johnson's letters to that lady . Mr. Langton , the grandson of Mr. Bennet Langton , has furnished some of his grandfather's papers , and several original MSS . of Dr. Johnson's Latin poetry , which have ...
Page xlix
... kind as to dictate , in his own happy and peculiar style , some notes of his recollections of Dr. Johnson . These , by a very unusual accident , were lost , and his lordship's great age and in- creasing infirmity deterred me from again ...
... kind as to dictate , in his own happy and peculiar style , some notes of his recollections of Dr. Johnson . These , by a very unusual accident , were lost , and his lordship's great age and in- creasing infirmity deterred me from again ...
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