The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... letter , not knowing where it will find you , to thank you for your very agreeable Tour , ' which I found here on my return from the country , and in which you have depicted our friend so ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION XV perfectly ...
... letter , not knowing where it will find you , to thank you for your very agreeable Tour , ' which I found here on my return from the country , and in which you have depicted our friend so ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION XV perfectly ...
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... letter from Miss Mary Adye , of Lichfield . " When Dr. Sacheverel was at Lichfield , Johnson was not quite three years old . My grandfather Hammond observed him at the cathedral perched upon his father's shoulders , listening and gaping ...
... letter from Miss Mary Adye , of Lichfield . " When Dr. Sacheverel was at Lichfield , Johnson was not quite three years old . My grandfather Hammond observed him at the cathedral perched upon his father's shoulders , listening and gaping ...
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... letter , and asked him to borrow for her , from his father , a Bible in that character . When he was going to Oxford , she came to take leave of him , brought him , in the simplicity of her kindness , a present of gingerbread , and said ...
... letter , and asked him to borrow for her , from his father , a Bible in that character . When he was going to Oxford , she came to take leave of him , brought him , in the simplicity of her kindness , a present of gingerbread , and said ...
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... letter preserved in the records of Pem- broke College , and first printed by Croker , the same objection , coupled with a charge of bad manners and temper , was raised when Gilbert Walmsley tried a few years later to procure for him the ...
... letter preserved in the records of Pem- broke College , and first printed by Croker , the same objection , coupled with a charge of bad manners and temper , was raised when Gilbert Walmsley tried a few years later to procure for him the ...
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... letter informed our provincial , that we might easily enter his dominions by the way of Dancala ; but , unhappily , the secretary wrote Zeila for Dancala , which cost two of our fathers their lives . " Every one acquainted with ...
... letter informed our provincial , that we might easily enter his dominions by the way of Dancala ; but , unhappily , the secretary wrote Zeila for Dancala , which cost two of our fathers their lives . " Every one acquainted with ...
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