The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 8Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 |
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... admirable work , I have an opportunity of observing with wonder the correctness with which he rapidly struck off such glowing composition . He may be have allotted to every poet an advertisement , like that which w find in the French ...
... admirable work , I have an opportunity of observing with wonder the correctness with which he rapidly struck off such glowing composition . He may be have allotted to every poet an advertisement , like that which w find in the French ...
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... admiration of the fertility of War- burton's genius and of the variety of his materials , was , " The table is always full , Sir . He brings things from the north , and the south , and from every quarter . In his Divine Legation , ' you ...
... admiration of the fertility of War- burton's genius and of the variety of his materials , was , " The table is always full , Sir . He brings things from the north , and the south , and from every quarter . In his Divine Legation , ' you ...
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... per- haps , more admirable than even his writings , how- ever excellent . Mr. Wilkes has , however , favoured me with one repartee of Pope , of which Johnson was not informed . ( 1 ) Johnson , after 18 1781 . LIFE OF JOHNSON.
... per- haps , more admirable than even his writings , how- ever excellent . Mr. Wilkes has , however , favoured me with one repartee of Pope , of which Johnson was not informed . ( 1 ) Johnson , after 18 1781 . LIFE OF JOHNSON.
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... admirable work , I introduce him with peculiar pro- priety as the correspondent of Warren Hastings ! a man whose ... admiration to him , should certainly not with- hold it at a moment ( 1 ) when it.
... admirable work , I introduce him with peculiar pro- priety as the correspondent of Warren Hastings ! a man whose ... admiration to him , should certainly not with- hold it at a moment ( 1 ) when it.
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... admirable pio ture of a man . ( 1 ) I was for Shakspeare , Mrs. Thrale ( 1 ) Shakspeare makes Hamlet thus describe his father ; " See what a grace was seated on this brow : Hyperion's curls , the front of Jove himself , for Milton ; and ...
... admirable pio ture of a man . ( 1 ) I was for Shakspeare , Mrs. Thrale ( 1 ) Shakspeare makes Hamlet thus describe his father ; " See what a grace was seated on this brow : Hyperion's curls , the front of Jove himself , for Milton ; and ...
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