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Page ix
... Rambler , the essays for Hawkesworth's Adventurer , the Dictionary , the Idler , and the proposals for Shakes- peare . Hence , too , he dispatched that epistle to Chesterfield , which is still the pride of independent men of letters ...
... Rambler , the essays for Hawkesworth's Adventurer , the Dictionary , the Idler , and the proposals for Shakes- peare . Hence , too , he dispatched that epistle to Chesterfield , which is still the pride of independent men of letters ...
Page xvii
... Rambler . his mode of eating is , let us trust , exaggerated ; but his horror of his own company , and his capabilities as a vigorous trencherman , made him a willing diner - out , especially after Mrs. Johnson's death in 1752. At this ...
... Rambler . his mode of eating is , let us trust , exaggerated ; but his horror of his own company , and his capabilities as a vigorous trencherman , made him a willing diner - out , especially after Mrs. Johnson's death in 1752. At this ...
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... , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample communications of a similar nature . 1 Rambler , No. 60 . That the conversation of a celebrated man , if his 4 THE LIFE OF DR JOHNSON.
... , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample communications of a similar nature . 1 Rambler , No. 60 . That the conversation of a celebrated man , if his 4 THE LIFE OF DR JOHNSON.
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... to express , with any degree of point , should perish . For this almost superstitious reverence , I have found very old and 1 Rambler , No. 60 . venerable authority , quoted by our great modern prelate , 6 THE LIFE OF DR JOHNSON.
... to express , with any degree of point , should perish . For this almost superstitious reverence , I have found very old and 1 Rambler , No. 60 . venerable authority , quoted by our great modern prelate , 6 THE LIFE OF DR JOHNSON.
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... RAMBLER , No. 103 . 2 May we not trace a fanciful similarity between Politian , and Johnson ? Huetius , speaking of Paulus Pelissonius Fontanerius , says " -in quo Natura , ut olim in Angelo Politiano , deformitatem oris excellentis ...
... RAMBLER , No. 103 . 2 May we not trace a fanciful similarity between Politian , and Johnson ? Huetius , speaking of Paulus Pelissonius Fontanerius , says " -in quo Natura , ut olim in Angelo Politiano , deformitatem oris excellentis ...
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