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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... allow him a nobleness of resolution , in penetrating into distant regions ? " JOHNSON . " That , ' Of Saturday , April 1 , 1775 . VOL . II . The traveller Bruce , I 376639 APR 20 '27 Sir , is not to the present purpose : we THE LIFE ...
... allow him a nobleness of resolution , in penetrating into distant regions ? " JOHNSON . " That , ' Of Saturday , April 1 , 1775 . VOL . II . The traveller Bruce , I 376639 APR 20 '27 Sir , is not to the present purpose : we THE LIFE ...
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... allow there are some good passages in it . " JOHNSON . " There are now and then some good imitations of Milton's bad manner . " I often wondered at his low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason . Of Gray's poetry I have , in a ...
... allow there are some good passages in it . " JOHNSON . " There are now and then some good imitations of Milton's bad manner . " I often wondered at his low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason . Of Gray's poetry I have , in a ...
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... allowed considerable merit to some of his comedies , and said there was no reason to believe that " The ' Boswell's report is meagre , but Dr. Campbell jotted down some notes which snow that the conversation was interest- ing and ...
... allowed considerable merit to some of his comedies , and said there was no reason to believe that " The ' Boswell's report is meagre , but Dr. Campbell jotted down some notes which snow that the conversation was interest- ing and ...
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... allow to be more to Clarendon than a rat to a cat ... Turn- ing to me , he said , ' You have produced classical writers and scholars : I don't know , ' he says , that any man is before Usher as a scholar , unless it may be Selden ; and ...
... allow to be more to Clarendon than a rat to a cat ... Turn- ing to me , he said , ' You have produced classical writers and scholars : I don't know , ' he says , that any man is before Usher as a scholar , unless it may be Selden ; and ...
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... allowed to pay my tribute of most sincere gratitude to the memory of that excellent person , my intimacy with whom was the more valuable to me , because my first acquaintance with him was unexpected and unsolicited . Soon after the ...
... allowed to pay my tribute of most sincere gratitude to the memory of that excellent person , my intimacy with whom was the more valuable to me , because my first acquaintance with him was unexpected and unsolicited . Soon after the ...
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