The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent, 1934 |
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Page xvii
... probably at the St. John's Gate so familiar on Mr. Urban's title- page , that he dined behind the screen ; and heard Philip Stanhope's tutor , Harte , praise his Life of Richard Savage . He must often have eaten , too , at Dodsley's in ...
... probably at the St. John's Gate so familiar on Mr. Urban's title- page , that he dined behind the screen ; and heard Philip Stanhope's tutor , Harte , praise his Life of Richard Savage . He must often have eaten , too , at Dodsley's in ...
Page 110
... probably was , if it be certain that he wrote the English ; as to which my only cause of doubt is , that his slighting character of Hanmer as an editor , in his " Observations on Macbeth , " is very different from that in the Epitaph ...
... probably was , if it be certain that he wrote the English ; as to which my only cause of doubt is , that his slighting character of Hanmer as an editor , in his " Observations on Macbeth , " is very different from that in the Epitaph ...
Page 377
... probably , when the first ebullition was over , he felt some compunction , he took an opportunity to give him a hit : 1 My respectable friend , upon reading this passage , observed that he probably must have said not simply " strong ...
... probably , when the first ebullition was over , he felt some compunction , he took an opportunity to give him a hit : 1 My respectable friend , upon reading this passage , observed that he probably must have said not simply " strong ...
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