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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... concerning " Paradise Lost : 99 — " Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work , and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current , through fear ...
... concerning " Paradise Lost : 99 — " Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work , and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current , through fear ...
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... inattention ; just as he neglected to correct his statement concerning the family of Thomson , the poet , after it had been shown to be erroneous . - M. the Earl of Marchmont's reputation , who , were there 20 1781 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... inattention ; just as he neglected to correct his statement concerning the family of Thomson , the poet , after it had been shown to be erroneous . - M. the Earl of Marchmont's reputation , who , were there 20 1781 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... concerning this fact , I applied to Dr. Johnson , to learn on what authority he asserted it . He told me , he had it from Savage , who lived in intimacy with Steele , and who mentioned , that Steele told him the story with tears in his ...
... concerning this fact , I applied to Dr. Johnson , to learn on what authority he asserted it . He told me , he had it from Savage , who lived in intimacy with Steele , and who mentioned , that Steele told him the story with tears in his ...
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... concerning the 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 ...
... concerning the 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 ...
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... concerning Johnson's decision upon " Night Thoughts , " which I esteem as a mass of the grandest and richest poetry that human genius has ever produced ; and was delighted to find this character of that work : " In his ' Night Thoughts ...
... concerning Johnson's decision upon " Night Thoughts , " which I esteem as a mass of the grandest and richest poetry that human genius has ever produced ; and was delighted to find this character of that work : " In his ' Night Thoughts ...
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