The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Heritage Press, 1963 - Authors, English |
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Page 142
... writing , and observed , ' Dryden has written pro- logues superiour to any that David Garrick has written ; but David Garrick has written more good prologues than Dryden has done . It is wonderful that he has been able to write such ...
... writing , and observed , ' Dryden has written pro- logues superiour to any that David Garrick has written ; but David Garrick has written more good prologues than Dryden has done . It is wonderful that he has been able to write such ...
Page 237
... writing some memoirs of his Lordship , could tell me scarcely any thing.'1 I said , Mr. Robert Dodsley's life should be written , as he had been so much connected with the wits of his time , and by his literary merit had raised himself ...
... writing some memoirs of his Lordship , could tell me scarcely any thing.'1 I said , Mr. Robert Dodsley's life should be written , as he had been so much connected with the wits of his time , and by his literary merit had raised himself ...
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... written by a Dr. Kennedy , ( not the Lisbon physician . ) ' The catastrophe of it ( said he ) was , that a King , who was jealous of his Queen with his prime- minister , castrated himself . This tragedy was actually shewn about in ...
... written by a Dr. Kennedy , ( not the Lisbon physician . ) ' The catastrophe of it ( said he ) was , that a King , who was jealous of his Queen with his prime- minister , castrated himself . This tragedy was actually shewn about in ...
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