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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... hands , partly of the subsequent accumulation of others , the Editor has to request the indulgence of his readers in announcing an alteration in the plan of this work , as detailed in the Prospectus . It has been found impossible to ...
... hands , partly of the subsequent accumulation of others , the Editor has to request the indulgence of his readers in announcing an alteration in the plan of this work , as detailed in the Prospectus . It has been found impossible to ...
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... hand ( 2 ) of Mrs. Thrale as one of his copyists of select passages . ( 1 ) See several more in " The Gentleman's Magazine , 1785. The editor of that miscellany , in which Johnson wrote for several years , seems justly to think that ...
... hand ( 2 ) of Mrs. Thrale as one of his copyists of select passages . ( 1 ) See several more in " The Gentleman's Magazine , 1785. The editor of that miscellany , in which Johnson wrote for several years , seems justly to think that ...
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... hand of Johnson ? I shall select only the following passage concerning " Paradise Lost : 99 — " Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work , and marked his reputation stealing ...
... hand of Johnson ? I shall select only the following passage concerning " Paradise Lost : 99 — " Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work , and marked his reputation stealing ...
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... it not fair to understand him as superciliously persevering ? When he allows the shafts to re- main in the wounds , and will not stretch forth a lenient hand , country , should not only not have been in any 16 1781 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... it not fair to understand him as superciliously persevering ? When he allows the shafts to re- main in the wounds , and will not stretch forth a lenient hand , country , should not only not have been in any 16 1781 . LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... hands of Dr. Johnson , who I am sorry to think made but an awkward return . " Great assistance , " says he " has been given me by Mr. Spence's Collection , of which I consider the communication as a favour worthy of public ...
... hands of Dr. Johnson , who I am sorry to think made but an awkward return . " Great assistance , " says he " has been given me by Mr. Spence's Collection , of which I consider the communication as a favour worthy of public ...
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