The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 |
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... England , ―next to Lord Mansfield . " Aye , Sir , ( said he , ) the exception defined the idea . A Scotchman could go no farther : The force of Nature could no farther go . " " Lady Miller's collection of verses by fashionable people ...
... England , ―next to Lord Mansfield . " Aye , Sir , ( said he , ) the exception defined the idea . A Scotchman could go no farther : The force of Nature could no farther go . " " Lady Miller's collection of verses by fashionable people ...
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... England chiefly with a view to see Dr. Johnson , for whom he entertained the highest veneration . He has since published " A philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland , " a very entertaining book , which has , however , one fault ...
... England chiefly with a view to see Dr. Johnson , for whom he entertained the highest veneration . He has since published " A philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland , " a very entertaining book , which has , however , one fault ...
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... England and Scotland to two lions , the one saturated with his belly full , and the other prowling for prey . But the test he offered to prove , that Scotland , though it had learning enough for common life , yet had not sufficient for ...
... England and Scotland to two lions , the one saturated with his belly full , and the other prowling for prey . But the test he offered to prove , that Scotland , though it had learning enough for common life , yet had not sufficient for ...
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... England to see Purcell , and , when he heard he was dead , went directly back again to Italy . " JOHNSON . " I should not have wished to be dead to dis- appoint Campbell , had he been so foolish as you represent him ; but I should have ...
... England to see Purcell , and , when he heard he was dead , went directly back again to Italy . " JOHNSON . " I should not have wished to be dead to dis- appoint Campbell , had he been so foolish as you represent him ; but I should have ...
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... England , we should not believe that a long poem was preserved there , though in the neighbouring counties , where the same language was spoken , the inhabitants could write . " BEAU- CLERK . " The ballad of Lullabalero was once in the ...
... England , we should not believe that a long poem was preserved there , though in the neighbouring counties , where the same language was spoken , the inhabitants could write . " BEAU- CLERK . " The ballad of Lullabalero was once in the ...
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