The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
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... once recommended him to Johnson's friend- ship and sympathy . In a letter to Boswell under date March 14 , 1777 , he says , that " one Shaw , who seems a modest and a decent man , has written an Erse grammar , which a very learned ...
... once recommended him to Johnson's friend- ship and sympathy . In a letter to Boswell under date March 14 , 1777 , he says , that " one Shaw , who seems a modest and a decent man , has written an Erse grammar , which a very learned ...
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... once proceeded to prepare the first formal Life , and the first collected edition of his works . He could hardly have completed his arrangements with the trade before some months of 1785 had elapsed ; and in little more , therefore ...
... once proceeded to prepare the first formal Life , and the first collected edition of his works . He could hardly have completed his arrangements with the trade before some months of 1785 had elapsed ; and in little more , therefore ...
Page xii
... once , and he is sure not above twice . Yet , when he wrote his book , the sayings of Johnson were in the minds and on the lips of hundreds ; and his 800 pages proved the best foil that could be imagined to the biography soon to appear ...
... once , and he is sure not above twice . Yet , when he wrote his book , the sayings of Johnson were in the minds and on the lips of hundreds ; and his 800 pages proved the best foil that could be imagined to the biography soon to appear ...
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... once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the present work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to peruse it , and to ...
... once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the present work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to peruse it , and to ...
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... extraordinary man , whose wit and wisdom are here recorded , shall be viewed at a still greater distance ; and the instruc- tion and entertainment they afford will at once produce reverential xl MR . MALONE'S ADVERTISEMENTS .
... extraordinary man , whose wit and wisdom are here recorded , shall be viewed at a still greater distance ; and the instruc- tion and entertainment they afford will at once produce reverential xl MR . MALONE'S ADVERTISEMENTS .
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