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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... Wishes , has often extracted tears from those whose eyes wander dry over the pages of professed sentimentality . - WALTER SCOTT . ( 2 ) " Mr. D'Israeli , " as Mr. Chalmers observes , " has in the third volume of his Literary Curiosities ...
... Wishes , has often extracted tears from those whose eyes wander dry over the pages of professed sentimentality . - WALTER SCOTT . ( 2 ) " Mr. D'Israeli , " as Mr. Chalmers observes , " has in the third volume of his Literary Curiosities ...
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... wish to be known , I mean , both from his own writings , and from the writings of those who dissented from his principles or who envied his re- putation . But , as to favours , he had never received or asked any from the bishop of ...
... wish to be known , I mean , both from his own writings , and from the writings of those who dissented from his principles or who envied his re- putation . But , as to favours , he had never received or asked any from the bishop of ...
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... the easiest , as well as the dullest , of all literary efforts . " - Warburton's Letters , publishes by Bp . Hurd , 8vo . 367. -- C. VOL . VIII . c have no wish to be carried forward . " He TAT . 72 . 17 POPE WARBURTON .
... the easiest , as well as the dullest , of all literary efforts . " - Warburton's Letters , publishes by Bp . Hurd , 8vo . 367. -- C. VOL . VIII . c have no wish to be carried forward . " He TAT . 72 . 17 POPE WARBURTON .
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... wish to be carried forward . " He said to the Reverend Mr. Strahan , " Warburton is 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 ...
... wish to be carried forward . " He said to the Reverend Mr. Strahan , " Warburton is 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 ...
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... wish to have his intimacy with them known to posterity . " This will not apply to Lord Mansfield , who was not ennobled in Pope's lifetime ; but Johnson should have recollected , that Lord Marchmont was one of those noble friends . ( 1 ) ...
... wish to have his intimacy with them known to posterity . " This will not apply to Lord Mansfield , who was not ennobled in Pope's lifetime ; but Johnson should have recollected , that Lord Marchmont was one of those noble friends . ( 1 ) ...
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