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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... writing . Bet Flint . - English Sermons . Monckton . - - ― 1 Oratory . — Beauclerk's Library - - Blue - Stocking Clubs . Miss Talking for Victory . A Cui Bono Man . 19- - " Heroic Epistle . " -- Lord Carlisle's Poems . - Dr. Barnard ...
... writing . Bet Flint . - English Sermons . Monckton . - - ― 1 Oratory . — Beauclerk's Library - - Blue - Stocking Clubs . Miss Talking for Victory . A Cui Bono Man . 19- - " Heroic Epistle . " -- Lord Carlisle's Poems . - Dr. Barnard ...
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... writing , and this dilatoriness ever to write , Dr. Johnson always retained , from the days that he lay a - bed and dictated his first publication to Mr. Hector , to the moment he made me copy out those variations in ... Written , I hope.
... writing , and this dilatoriness ever to write , Dr. Johnson always retained , from the days that he lay a - bed and dictated his first publication to Mr. Hector , to the moment he made me copy out those variations in ... Written , I hope.
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... Written , I hope , in such a man- ner as may tend to the aromotion of piety . ” — ( Pr . and Med . pp . 174. 190 , This is the work which , of all Dr. Johnson's writ- ings , will perhaps be read most generally , and with most pleasure ...
... Written , I hope , in such a man- ner as may tend to the aromotion of piety . ” — ( Pr . and Med . pp . 174. 190 , This is the work which , of all Dr. Johnson's writ- ings , will perhaps be read most generally , and with most pleasure ...
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... written too much . " The " Lives " were soon published in a separate edition ; when , for a very few corrections , the doctor was presented with another hundred guineas . NICHOLS . assimilated to the lady in Waller , who could impress B ...
... written too much . " The " Lives " were soon published in a separate edition ; when , for a very few corrections , the doctor was presented with another hundred guineas . NICHOLS . assimilated to the lady in Waller , who could impress B ...
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... writing is an almost perfect specimen of calligraphy ; and this power remained unimpaired to the last years of her long life . — C. But he was principally indebted to my steady friend , ETAT . 72 . LIVES OF THE POETS .
... writing is an almost perfect specimen of calligraphy ; and this power remained unimpaired to the last years of her long life . — C. But he was principally indebted to my steady friend , ETAT . 72 . LIVES OF THE POETS .
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