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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... perhaps be read most generally , and with most pleasure . Philology and biography were his favourite pursuits , and those who lived most in inti- macy with him , heard him upon all occasions , when there was a proper opportunity , take ...
... perhaps be read most generally , and with most pleasure . Philology and biography were his favourite pursuits , and those who lived most in inti- macy with him , heard him upon all occasions , when there was a proper opportunity , take ...
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... perhaps no other ex- ample , he , who had written in justification of the murder of his sovereign , was safe under an Act of Oblivion . " " No sooner is he safe than he finds himself in danger , fallen on evil days and evil tongues ...
... perhaps no other ex- ample , he , who had written in justification of the murder of his sovereign , was safe under an Act of Oblivion . " " No sooner is he safe than he finds himself in danger , fallen on evil days and evil tongues ...
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... [ Perhaps no ] scarcely any man ever wrote so much and praised so few . " A certain [ rescue ] preservative from oblivion . " Let me not be censured for this digression , as [ contracted ] pedantic or paradoxical . " Socrates rather was ...
... [ Perhaps no ] scarcely any man ever wrote so much and praised so few . " A certain [ rescue ] preservative from oblivion . " Let me not be censured for this digression , as [ contracted ] pedantic or paradoxical . " Socrates rather was ...
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... perhaps the last man who has written with a mind full of reading and reflection . " It is remarkable , that in the Life of Broome , John- son takes notice of Dr. Warburton's using a mode of expression which he himself used , and that ...
... perhaps the last man who has written with a mind full of reading and reflection . " It is remarkable , that in the Life of Broome , John- son takes notice of Dr. Warburton's using a mode of expression which he himself used , and that ...
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... [ Perhaps ] certainly he had not the fire requisite for the higher species of lyric poetry . " Various Readings in the Life of TICKELL . 66 [ Longed ] long wished to peruse it . " At the [ accession ] arrival of King George . " Fiction ...
... [ Perhaps ] certainly he had not the fire requisite for the higher species of lyric poetry . " Various Readings in the Life of TICKELL . 66 [ Longed ] long wished to peruse it . " At the [ accession ] arrival of King George . " Fiction ...
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