The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1John W. Lovell Company, 1899 - Authors, English |
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... College , Oxford - His College Life - The " Morbid Melancholy " lurk ing in his Constitution gains Strength - Translates Pope's Messiah into Latin Verse - His Course of Reading at Oxford - Quits College . THAT a man in Mr. Michael ...
... College , Oxford - His College Life - The " Morbid Melancholy " lurk ing in his Constitution gains Strength - Translates Pope's Messiah into Latin Verse - His Course of Reading at Oxford - Quits College . THAT a man in Mr. Michael ...
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... College , which he retained to the last . A short time before his death , he sent to that college a present of all his works , ' to be deposited in their library : and he had thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but his ...
... College , which he retained to the last . A short time before his death , he sent to that college a present of all his works , ' to be deposited in their library : and he had thoughts of leaving to it his house at Lichfield ; but his ...
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... college , though not great , were increasing ; and his scanty remittances from Lich- field , which had all along been made with great difficulty , could be supplied no longer , his father having fallen into a state of insolvency ...
... college , though not great , were increasing ; and his scanty remittances from Lich- field , which had all along been made with great difficulty , could be supplied no longer , his father having fallen into a state of insolvency ...
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