The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... acquaintances to whom you have introduced me - for the " noctes cœnæque Deûm , " which I have enjoyed under your roof . If a work should be inscribed to one who is master of the subject of it , and whose approbation , therefore , must ...
... acquaintances to whom you have introduced me - for the " noctes cœnæque Deûm , " which I have enjoyed under your roof . If a work should be inscribed to one who is master of the subject of it , and whose approbation , therefore , must ...
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... excellence to biography are of a vola- tile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how 1 few can portray a living acquaintance , except by his DR . JOHNSON .
... excellence to biography are of a vola- tile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how 1 few can portray a living acquaintance , except by his DR . JOHNSON .
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James Boswell. few can portray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may be lost in ...
James Boswell. few can portray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may be lost in ...
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... acquaintance with books was great , and what he did not immediately know , he could , at least , tell where to find . Such was his ampli- tude of learning , and such his copiousness of communica- tion , that it may be doubted whether a ...
... acquaintance with books was great , and what he did not immediately know , he could , at least , tell where to find . Such was his ampli- tude of learning , and such his copiousness of communica- tion , that it may be doubted whether a ...
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... sir J. Hawkins , p . 32 , he resided with one Jervis , probably a relation of Mrs. Porter , his future wife.-ED. VOL . I. E He made some valuable acquaintances there , amongst whom were ÆTAT . 24. ] 49 DR . JOHNSON .
... sir J. Hawkins , p . 32 , he resided with one Jervis , probably a relation of Mrs. Porter , his future wife.-ED. VOL . I. E He made some valuable acquaintances there , amongst whom were ÆTAT . 24. ] 49 DR . JOHNSON .
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