The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1925 |
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Page x
... wrote mournfully of the latter bereavement ; and to pay his mother's modest debts , he penned the story of Rasselas . But before Rasselas was published in the April of 1759 , he had quitted Gough Square , the precise date of his ...
... wrote mournfully of the latter bereavement ; and to pay his mother's modest debts , he penned the story of Rasselas . But before Rasselas was published in the April of 1759 , he had quitted Gough Square , the precise date of his ...
Page xiv
... wrote so well of him in Mr. Urban's magazine . But to Ranelagh he went often , regarding it , Dr. Maxwell tells us , as " a place of innocent recreation . " " When I first entered Ranelagh , " he said , " it gave an expansion and gay ...
... wrote so well of him in Mr. Urban's magazine . But to Ranelagh he went often , regarding it , Dr. Maxwell tells us , as " a place of innocent recreation . " " When I first entered Ranelagh , " he said , " it gave an expansion and gay ...
Page xv
... wrote a prologue for Comus , when it was produced for the benefit of Milton's grand - daughter , and it is only reasonable to suppose that he was present when that prologue was spoken by Garrick . He also wrote another prologue , which ...
... wrote a prologue for Comus , when it was produced for the benefit of Milton's grand - daughter , and it is only reasonable to suppose that he was present when that prologue was spoken by Garrick . He also wrote another prologue , which ...
Page xix
... wrote The Polite Philosopher , and of the awkward and uncouth Robert Levett ; of Lord Thurlow , and Mr. Sastres , the Italian Master . " Now he was the guest of that " beautiful , gay and fascinating Lady Craven , " whose play of The ...
... wrote The Polite Philosopher , and of the awkward and uncouth Robert Levett ; of Lord Thurlow , and Mr. Sastres , the Italian Master . " Now he was the guest of that " beautiful , gay and fascinating Lady Craven , " whose play of The ...
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... wrote was Poetry , whose essence consists not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength and glow of a fancy , to which all the stores of nature and of art stand in prompt ad- ministration ; and in an eloquence which conveys their ...
... wrote was Poetry , whose essence consists not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength and glow of a fancy , to which all the stores of nature and of art stand in prompt ad- ministration ; and in an eloquence which conveys their ...
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