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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... expected a sharp rebuke When we were seated , he with him , and to tell me , This was , in fact , a most I told him , I thought it a very sonorous hexameter . I did not tell him , it was not in the Virgilian style . He much regretted ...
... expected a sharp rebuke When we were seated , he with him , and to tell me , This was , in fact , a most I told him , I thought it a very sonorous hexameter . I did not tell him , it was not in the Virgilian style . He much regretted ...
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... expected to hear from you , upon your entrance into a new state of life at a new place , yet recollectirg , ( not without some degree of shame , ) that I owe you a letter upon an old account , I think it my part to write first . This ...
... expected to hear from you , upon your entrance into a new state of life at a new place , yet recollectirg , ( not without some degree of shame , ) that I owe you a letter upon an old account , I think it my part to write first . This ...
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... expected among the last . Thus , of Tully's Offices , the edition of Fust is the most curious , and that of Grævius the most useful . The most splendid the eye will discern . With the old printers you are now become well acquainted ; if ...
... expected among the last . Thus , of Tully's Offices , the edition of Fust is the most curious , and that of Grævius the most useful . The most splendid the eye will discern . With the old printers you are now become well acquainted ; if ...
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