The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... expressed . I there- fore recommend the previous perusal of it to all those who intend to buy the Diction- ary , and who , I suppose , are all those who can afford it . * * " It must be owned , that our language is , at present , in a ...
... expressed . I there- fore recommend the previous perusal of it to all those who intend to buy the Diction- ary , and who , I suppose , are all those who can afford it . * * " It must be owned , that our language is , at present , in a ...
Page 116
... expressed in an easy style , that I should injure it by any alteration : Warton . " When Johnson came to Ox- ford in 1754 , the long vacation Thomas was beginning , and most people were leaving the place . This was the first time of his ...
... expressed in an easy style , that I should injure it by any alteration : Warton . " When Johnson came to Ox- ford in 1754 , the long vacation Thomas was beginning , and most people were leaving the place . This was the first time of his ...
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... expressed a very favourable opinion of Buchanan , and instantly repeated from beginning to end , an ode of his , entitled Calenda Maixe ( the eleventh in his Mis- cellaneorum Liber , beginning with these words , Salvete sacris deliciis ...
... expressed a very favourable opinion of Buchanan , and instantly repeated from beginning to end , an ode of his , entitled Calenda Maixe ( the eleventh in his Mis- cellaneorum Liber , beginning with these words , Salvete sacris deliciis ...
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