The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... character of a " respectable Hotten- tot , " in Lord Chesterfield's Letters , has been generally understood to be meant for Johnson , and I have no doubt that it was . But I remember when the literary proper- ty of those letters was ...
... character of a " respectable Hotten- tot , " in Lord Chesterfield's Letters , has been generally understood to be meant for Johnson , and I have no doubt that it was . But I remember when the literary proper- ty of those letters was ...
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... character . He praised Goldsmith's " Good- natured Man ; " said it was the best comedy that had appeared since " The Provoked Husband , " and that there had not been of late any such character exhibited on the stage as that of Croaker ...
... character . He praised Goldsmith's " Good- natured Man ; " said it was the best comedy that had appeared since " The Provoked Husband , " and that there had not been of late any such character exhibited on the stage as that of Croaker ...
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... character 1 being men- tioned : -JOHNSON . " I remember being present when he showed himself to be so corrupted , or at least something so different from what I think right , as to maintain that a member of parliament should go along ...
... character 1 being men- tioned : -JOHNSON . " I remember being present when he showed himself to be so corrupted , or at least something so different from what I think right , as to maintain that a member of parliament should go along ...
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