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... mechanical parts . The Club in Ivy Lane The Vanity of Human Wishes published . Garrick brings out Irene at Drury Lane . Ill success of that tragedy The Rambler commenced 1752 . Ęt . 43 . His kindness to Mrs. TABLE OF CONTENTS . XXV.
... mechanical parts . The Club in Ivy Lane The Vanity of Human Wishes published . Garrick brings out Irene at Drury Lane . Ill success of that tragedy The Rambler commenced 1752 . Ęt . 43 . His kindness to Mrs. TABLE OF CONTENTS . XXV.
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... wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it ' is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's ...
... wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it ' is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's ...
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... Wishes , " the " Prefaces " to the Dictionary and Shakespeare , and the " Lives of the Poets , " that admiration has little or no alloy . In his personal conduct and conversation there may be occasionally something to regret and ...
... Wishes , " the " Prefaces " to the Dictionary and Shakespeare , and the " Lives of the Poets , " that admiration has little or no alloy . In his personal conduct and conversation there may be occasionally something to regret and ...
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... wish to depreciate him , should , since his death , have laid hold of this circumstance , and insisted upon it with very unfair aggravation . Amidst the oppression and distraction of a disease which very few have felt in its full extent ...
... wish to depreciate him , should , since his death , have laid hold of this circumstance , and insisted upon it with very unfair aggravation . Amidst the oppression and distraction of a disease which very few have felt in its full extent ...
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... Mrs. Piozzi seems to wish that the world should think Dr. Johnson also under the in- fluence of that easy logic , " Stet pro ratione voluntas . " conversion , have , in some cases , brought a 40 1729 . BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... Mrs. Piozzi seems to wish that the world should think Dr. Johnson also under the in- fluence of that easy logic , " Stet pro ratione voluntas . " conversion , have , in some cases , brought a 40 1729 . BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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