The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D: Including A Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2A. V. Blake, 1844 |
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... manner , and at his dress , which he ob- stinately continued exactly as in London ; -his brown clothes , black ... manners re- JOHNSON . No. sembled the Italians . " He was the showman , and we did not like his show ; that was all ...
... manner , and at his dress , which he ob- stinately continued exactly as in London ; -his brown clothes , black ... manners re- JOHNSON . No. sembled the Italians . " He was the showman , and we did not like his show ; that was all ...
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... manner take Bentley's and Ja- son de Nores ' Comments upon Horace 2 , you will admire Bentley more when wrong , than Jason when right . ” ' You have treated me much better than I deserve ; " and that they exchanged visits . I took the ...
... manner take Bentley's and Ja- son de Nores ' Comments upon Horace 2 , you will admire Bentley more when wrong , than Jason when right . ” ' You have treated me much better than I deserve ; " and that they exchanged visits . I took the ...
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... manner , and the want of more examples to enliven , is one of the most nervous , most perspicuous , most concise , most harmonious prose wri- ters I know . A learned diction improves by time . " Piozzi , p . 130 . In the afternoon , as ...
... manner , and the want of more examples to enliven , is one of the most nervous , most perspicuous , most concise , most harmonious prose wri- ters I know . A learned diction improves by time . " Piozzi , p . 130 . In the afternoon , as ...
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... manner , periphrastically exhibited in his poem as it now stands : | another attempt to make her understand | the father's estate. into this country about the time that the family of Hanover came ? I should like to see The History of the ...
... manner , periphrastically exhibited in his poem as it now stands : | another attempt to make her understand | the father's estate. into this country about the time that the family of Hanover came ? I should like to see The History of the ...
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... manners , and the spiritual - mindedness , of the quakers ; and talking with Mr. Lloyd , I observed , that the essential ... manner ; and the good quakers had the advantage of him ; for he had read negligently , and had not observed that ...
... manners , and the spiritual - mindedness , of the quakers ; and talking with Mr. Lloyd , I observed , that the essential ... manner ; and the good quakers had the advantage of him ; for he had read negligently , and had not observed that ...
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