The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1925 |
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Page vi
... probably to the same bookish neighbourhood ( where Dorset years before had bought an unsaleable work called Paradise Lost ) that he gravitated in 1737 , since Wilcox , who bade him buy a porter's knot , was also at one time a Little ...
... probably to the same bookish neighbourhood ( where Dorset years before had bought an unsaleable work called Paradise Lost ) that he gravitated in 1737 , since Wilcox , who bade him buy a porter's knot , was also at one time a Little ...
Page viii
... probably derived from a sham - Gothic structure in its neighbourhood known as Frognal Priory , which disappeared in 1876. In Priory Lodge Johnson un- doubtedly lived during part of 1748 , and his wife much longer . Here he wrote the ...
... probably derived from a sham - Gothic structure in its neighbourhood known as Frognal Priory , which disappeared in 1876. In Priory Lodge Johnson un- doubtedly lived during part of 1748 , and his wife much longer . Here he wrote the ...
Page xiv
... Probably it was duller , since Gibbon talks of its " ennui , " and Fanny Burney of its " solemnity . " Miss Evelina Anville found that she could not be " as gay and thoughtless " at the Pantheon as at the Chelsea garden . There was a ...
... Probably it was duller , since Gibbon talks of its " ennui , " and Fanny Burney of its " solemnity . " Miss Evelina Anville found that she could not be " as gay and thoughtless " at the Pantheon as at the Chelsea garden . There was a ...
Page xvii
... probably at the St. John's Gate so familiar on Mr. Urban's title- page , that he dined behind the screen ; and heard Philip Stanhope's tutor , Harte , praise his Life of Richard Savage . must often have eaten , too , at Dodsley's in ...
... probably at the St. John's Gate so familiar on Mr. Urban's title- page , that he dined behind the screen ; and heard Philip Stanhope's tutor , Harte , praise his Life of Richard Savage . must often have eaten , too , at Dodsley's in ...
Page xx
... are associated with his name ; and Leigh Hunt hardly exaggerates when he suggests that Johnson had probably been in every tavern and coffee - house in his favourite The company , street . A few of his known XX INTRODUCTION.
... are associated with his name ; and Leigh Hunt hardly exaggerates when he suggests that Johnson had probably been in every tavern and coffee - house in his favourite The company , street . A few of his known XX INTRODUCTION.
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