The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: Including A Journal of a Tour to the HebridesHarper & Brothers, 1863 |
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Page 37
... written a considerable part of the " Biographia Britannica . " Johnson , though he valued him highly , was of opinion that there was not so much in his great work , " A Political Survey of Great Britain , " as the world had been taught ...
... written a considerable part of the " Biographia Britannica . " Johnson , though he valued him highly , was of opinion that there was not so much in his great work , " A Political Survey of Great Britain , " as the world had been taught ...
Page 61
... written by Addison ; for there was all the world to write that half , yet not a half of that half is good . One of the finest pieces in the English lan- guage is the paper on Novelty ' , yet we do not hear it talked of . It was written ...
... written by Addison ; for there was all the world to write that half , yet not a half of that half is good . One of the finest pieces in the English lan- guage is the paper on Novelty ' , yet we do not hear it talked of . It was written ...
Page 408
... written from Bath , and contains an indignant vindica- tion as well of her conduct as her fame , an inhibition of Johnson from following her to Bath , and a farewell , concluding " Till you have changed your opinion of [ Piozzi ] let us ...
... written from Bath , and contains an indignant vindica- tion as well of her conduct as her fame , an inhibition of Johnson from following her to Bath , and a farewell , concluding " Till you have changed your opinion of [ Piozzi ] let us ...
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