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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... common friend , who has known him long and is not much addicted to flattery , gives the highest testimony . Various Readings in the Life of MILTON . " I cannot find any meaning but this which [ his most bigoted advocates ] even kindness ...
... common friend , who has known him long and is not much addicted to flattery , gives the highest testimony . Various Readings in the Life of MILTON . " I cannot find any meaning but this which [ his most bigoted advocates ] even kindness ...
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... common occurrences that were then passing , which appeared somewhat remarkable in a man of such intellectual stores , of such an advanced age , and who had retired from life with declared disappointment in his expect ations . An ...
... common occurrences that were then passing , which appeared somewhat remarkable in a man of such intellectual stores , of such an advanced age , and who had retired from life with declared disappointment in his expect ations . An ...
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... common occasions he habitually [ assumes ] affects a style of [ superiority ] arrogance . 66 By the [ omission ] neglect of those ceremonies . " That their merits filled the world [ and ] or that there was no [ room for ] hope of more ...
... common occasions he habitually [ assumes ] affects a style of [ superiority ] arrogance . 66 By the [ omission ] neglect of those ceremonies . " That their merits filled the world [ and ] or that there was no [ room for ] hope of more ...
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... common , and therefore to have a source of conversation which neither the learning nor the wit of a new companion can supply . 6 " My Lives ' are now published ; and if you will tell me whither I shall send them , that they may come to ...
... common , and therefore to have a source of conversation which neither the learning nor the wit of a new companion can supply . 6 " My Lives ' are now published ; and if you will tell me whither I shall send them , that they may come to ...
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... common reader : it wants every where to be made smoother and plainer . You may , by revisal and correction , make it a very elegant and a very curious work . I am , my dearest dear , your , & c . " SAM . JOHNSON . " LETTER 404. TO ...
... common reader : it wants every where to be made smoother and plainer . You may , by revisal and correction , make it a very elegant and a very curious work . I am , my dearest dear , your , & c . " SAM . JOHNSON . " LETTER 404. TO ...
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