The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Harper, 1859 |
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... sir , your dence at Auchinleck will have many good affectionate humble ... Lord Monboddo and Mr. Mac- queen should controvert a position contrary to the imaginary ... Joshua Reynolds lived . - Bos- WELL . as , " I am to set out to - 1775 ...
... sir , your dence at Auchinleck will have many good affectionate humble ... Lord Monboddo and Mr. Mac- queen should controvert a position contrary to the imaginary ... Joshua Reynolds lived . - Bos- WELL . as , " I am to set out to - 1775 ...
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... sir , as some dogs dance better than others . " Reyn . [ In the same spirit , but of more Recoll . vehemence and greater injustice , were his statements to Sir Joshua and Miss Reynolds , who has noted them in her Re- collections . 66 ...
... sir , as some dogs dance better than others . " Reyn . [ In the same spirit , but of more Recoll . vehemence and greater injustice , were his statements to Sir Joshua and Miss Reynolds , who has noted them in her Re- collections . 66 ...
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... Sir Joshua Reynolds , at one of the dinners of the royal academy , presented him to a Frenchman of great distinction , he would not deign to speak French , but talked Latin , though his excellency did not understand it , owing , perhaps ...
... Sir Joshua Reynolds , at one of the dinners of the royal academy , presented him to a Frenchman of great distinction , he would not deign to speak French , but talked Latin , though his excellency did not understand it , owing , perhaps ...
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... sir . " I mentioned Sir Richard Steele having published his " Christian Hero , " with the avowed purpose of obliging ... Joshua Reynolds informs me , that when Mr. Burke was first elected a member of parliament , and Sir John Hawkins ...
... sir . " I mentioned Sir Richard Steele having published his " Christian Hero , " with the avowed purpose of obliging ... Joshua Reynolds informs me , that when Mr. Burke was first elected a member of parliament , and Sir John Hawkins ...
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... sir ; there is nothing felt exceedingly inflamed with anger if any which has ... Sir John Hawkins has preserved very few memorabilia of Johnson . There is ... Joshua Reynolds's , had made all the assem- bled wits burst into a laugh ...
... sir ; there is nothing felt exceedingly inflamed with anger if any which has ... Sir John Hawkins has preserved very few memorabilia of Johnson . There is ... Joshua Reynolds's , had made all the assem- bled wits burst into a laugh ...
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