The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works in Chronological Order ; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons ; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published ; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 2Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1851 |
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... Lord Caermarthen , now Duke of Leeds , then one of his Majesty's principal secretaries of state , who announced to Sir Francis the Royal pleasure 1 > 4 e understood he came some- saving heard. AGE 58. ] 31 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... Lord Caermarthen , now Duke of Leeds , then one of his Majesty's principal secretaries of state , who announced to Sir Francis the Royal pleasure 1 > 4 e understood he came some- saving heard. AGE 58. ] 31 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... heard him swear or talk bawdy . " Mr. Davies , who sat next to Dr. Percy , having after this had some conversation aside with him , made a discovery which , in his zeal to pay court to Dr. Johnson , he eagerly proclaimed aloud from the ...
... heard him swear or talk bawdy . " Mr. Davies , who sat next to Dr. Percy , having after this had some conversation aside with him , made a discovery which , in his zeal to pay court to Dr. Johnson , he eagerly proclaimed aloud from the ...
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... heard him mention the subject ; but at a later period of his life , when Sir Joshua Reynolds told him that Mr. Edmund Burke had said , that if he had come early into Parliament , he certainly would have been the greatest speaker that ...
... heard him mention the subject ; but at a later period of his life , when Sir Joshua Reynolds told him that Mr. Edmund Burke had said , that if he had come early into Parliament , he certainly would have been the greatest speaker that ...
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Frontispiece Johnsons interview with George III | 6 |
Johnsons fit of laughter at the Temple Gate from an original drawing 170 | 7 |
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