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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... wrote in my usual way , dilatorily and has- tily , unwilling to work , and working with vigour and haste . " ( 1 ) In a memorandum previous to this , ( 1 ) This facility of writing , and this dilatoriness ever to write , Dr. Johnson ...
... wrote in my usual way , dilatorily and has- tily , unwilling to work , and working with vigour and haste . " ( 1 ) In a memorandum previous to this , ( 1 ) This facility of writing , and this dilatoriness ever to write , Dr. Johnson ...
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... wrote for several years , seems justly to think that every fragment of so great a man is worthy of being preserved . ( 2 ) A fair hand , in more than one sense- her writing is an almost perfect specimen of calligraphy ; and this power ...
... wrote for several years , seems justly to think that every fragment of so great a man is worthy of being preserved . ( 2 ) A fair hand , in more than one sense- her writing is an almost perfect specimen of calligraphy ; and this power ...
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... 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 of opinion , that what we had to ...
... 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 of opinion , that what we had to ...
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... wrote that poet's life , the papers were " committed to the sole care and judgment of Lord Bolingbroke , unless he ( Lord Bolingbroke ) shall not survive me ; " so that Lord Marchmont has no concern whatever with them . After the first ...
... wrote that poet's life , the papers were " committed to the sole care and judgment of Lord Bolingbroke , unless he ( Lord Bolingbroke ) shall not survive me ; " so that Lord Marchmont has no concern whatever with them . After the first ...
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... go forward . " He wrote in such a manner as might expose him to few [ neglects ] hazards . " The [ reasonableness ] justice of my determination . " A [ favourite ] delicious employment of the poets ÆFAT . 72 . 21 POPE .
... go forward . " He wrote in such a manner as might expose him to few [ neglects ] hazards . " The [ reasonableness ] justice of my determination . " A [ favourite ] delicious employment of the poets ÆFAT . 72 . 21 POPE .
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