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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... instance , hav I reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me oo little , but that I have written too much . " The " Lives " were soon published in a separate edition ; when , for a very few corrections , the doctor was ...
... instance , hav I reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me oo little , but that I have written too much . " The " Lives " were soon published in a separate edition ; when , for a very few corrections , the doctor was ...
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... instances , and many others might be produced , in which Dr. Johnson , when he pub lished a new edition , utterly disregarded the corrections of errors of which he was apprised . The truth is , he began the work as a thing that might be ...
... instances , and many others might be produced , in which Dr. Johnson , when he pub lished a new edition , utterly disregarded the corrections of errors of which he was apprised . The truth is , he began the work as a thing that might be ...
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... instance of the truth of this remark . — M. ( 2 ) The original reading is enclosed in brackets , and the present one is printed in italics . swelled , he would have avoided this ; and there ETAT . 72 . 7 COWLEY WALLER .
... instance of the truth of this remark . — M. ( 2 ) The original reading is enclosed in brackets , and the present one is printed in italics . swelled , he would have avoided this ; and there ETAT . 72 . 7 COWLEY WALLER .
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... instances of the effect of blank verse occurred to the late Earl of Hopeton . His lordship ob served one of his shepherds poring in the fields upon Milton's " Paradise Lost ; " and having asked him what book it was , the man answered ...
... instances of the effect of blank verse occurred to the late Earl of Hopeton . His lordship ob served one of his shepherds poring in the fields upon Milton's " Paradise Lost ; " and having asked him what book it was , the man answered ...
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... instances , though we must wonder at them , are not rare . If I am rightly in- formed , after a careful inquiry , they never met but once , which was at the house of Mrs. French , in London , well known for her elegant assemblies , and ...
... instances , though we must wonder at them , are not rare . If I am rightly in- formed , after a careful inquiry , they never met but once , which was at the house of Mrs. French , in London , well known for her elegant assemblies , and ...
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