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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... seen some 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 ...
... seen some 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 ...
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... seen it , and it may please them . But it is not necessary . " An Account of the Lives and Works of some of the most eminent English Poets , by , & c . The English Poets , biographically and critically considered , by Sam . Johnson ...
... seen it , and it may please them . But it is not necessary . " An Account of the Lives and Works of some of the most eminent English Poets , by , & c . The English Poets , biographically and critically considered , by Sam . Johnson ...
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... seen ( 1 ) was one of Johnson's literary projects at an early period , and which it is remarkable , that after desisting from it , from a supposed scantiness of materials , he should , at an advanced age , have exhibited so amply . His ...
... seen ( 1 ) was one of Johnson's literary projects at an early period , and which it is remarkable , that after desisting from it , from a supposed scantiness of materials , he should , at an advanced age , have exhibited so amply . His ...
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... seen him only once , when they met almost without design , conversed without much effort , and parted without any lasting impression of hatred or affection . Yet , with all the ardour of sympathetic genius , Johnson had done that ...
... seen him only once , when they met almost without design , conversed without much effort , and parted without any lasting impression of hatred or affection . Yet , with all the ardour of sympathetic genius , Johnson had done that ...
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... seen . 66 Every sheet enabled him to write the next with [ less trouble ] more facility . " No man sympathises with [ vanity depressed ] the sorrows of vanity . " It had been [ criminal ] less easily excused . " When he [ threatened to ...
... seen . 66 Every sheet enabled him to write the next with [ less trouble ] more facility . " No man sympathises with [ vanity depressed ] the sorrows of vanity . " It had been [ criminal ] less easily excused . " When he [ threatened to ...
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