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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... died in 1765. Let me here express my grateful remembrance of Lord Somerville's kindness to me , at a very early period . He was the first person of high rank that took particular notice of me in the way most flattering to a young man ...
... died in 1765. Let me here express my grateful remembrance of Lord Somerville's kindness to me , at a very early period . He was the first person of high rank that took particular notice of me in the way most flattering to a young man ...
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... died at a great age , I think in 1768 , and had been well acquainted with Steele , told him the same story . M. - Lady Dorothea was the sixth and youngest daughter of the first Earl of Roseberry , but she could not have been , at her ...
... died at a great age , I think in 1768 , and had been well acquainted with Steele , told him the same story . M. - Lady Dorothea was the sixth and youngest daughter of the first Earl of Roseberry , but she could not have been , at her ...
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... died at Paris , April 27. 1816. See Gent . Mag . for May , 1816. — C. ( 2 ) Gentleman's Magazine , vol . lv . p . 10 . ( 8 ) Mr. Burke . M felicity , " It has all the contortions of the ÆTAT . 72 . 29 LYTTELTON YOUNG . -
... died at Paris , April 27. 1816. See Gent . Mag . for May , 1816. — C. ( 2 ) Gentleman's Magazine , vol . lv . p . 10 . ( 8 ) Mr. Burke . M felicity , " It has all the contortions of the ÆTAT . 72 . 29 LYTTELTON YOUNG . -
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... died at Byfleet in Surrey , August 20 , 1768. He was a fellow of New College in Oxford , and held the office of Professor of Poetry in that University from 1728 to 1738. - M. ( 2 ) It appears from a letter of Mrs. Boscawen in Hannah ...
... died at Byfleet in Surrey , August 20 , 1768. He was a fellow of New College in Oxford , and held the office of Professor of Poetry in that University from 1728 to 1738. - M. ( 2 ) It appears from a letter of Mrs. Boscawen in Hannah ...
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... his cradle He was a scholar , and a ripe and good one : And , to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him , he died fearing Heaven . " SHARSPELER stepped aside with me into Falcon Court , and made 44 1781 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... his cradle He was a scholar , and a ripe and good one : And , to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him , he died fearing Heaven . " SHARSPELER stepped aside with me into Falcon Court , and made 44 1781 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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