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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... obliging dis- position rendered him useful to Johnson . Thus : : - " In the Life of Waller , Mr. Nichols will find a re- ference to the Parliamentary History , from which a long quotation is to be inserted . If Mr. Nichols cannot easily ...
... obliging dis- position rendered him useful to Johnson . Thus : : - " In the Life of Waller , Mr. Nichols will find a re- ference to the Parliamentary History , from which a long quotation is to be inserted . If Mr. Nichols cannot easily ...
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... obliged to him in thus setting before the public so many of my notes , with his remarks upon them : for though I have no great opinion of the trifling part of the public , which pretends to judge of this part of literature , in which ...
... obliged to him in thus setting before the public so many of my notes , with his remarks upon them : for though I have no great opinion of the trifling part of the public , which pretends to judge of this part of literature , in which ...
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... obliged me with the following note con- cerning it : " March 15th , 1781. — Many persons having doubts concerning this fact , I applied to Dr. Johnson , to learn on what authority he asserted it . He told me , he had it from Savage ...
... obliged me with the following note con- cerning it : " March 15th , 1781. — Many persons having doubts concerning this fact , I applied to Dr. Johnson , to learn on what authority he asserted it . He told me , he had it from Savage ...
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... obliged to own , that " it will perhaps appear that he only liked one mode of expense better than another , and saved merely that he might have something to give . " One observation which Johnson makes in Swift's life should be often ...
... obliged to own , that " it will perhaps appear that he only liked one mode of expense better than another , and saved merely that he might have something to give . " One observation which Johnson makes in Swift's life should be often ...
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... obliged ; so that the ac- knowledgment is unappropriated to his grace . ( 2 ) While the world in general was filled with admir- ation of Johnson's " Lives of the Poets , " there were narrow circles in which prejudice and resentment were ...
... obliged ; so that the ac- knowledgment is unappropriated to his grace . ( 2 ) While the world in general was filled with admir- ation of Johnson's " Lives of the Poets , " there were narrow circles in which prejudice and resentment were ...
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