The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION , NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED . WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT - BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . Quò fit ut OMNIS ...
... ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION , NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED . WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT - BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . Quò fit ut OMNIS ...
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... original mem- bers were , Sir Joshua Reynolds , Dr. Johnson , Mr. Edmund Burke , Dr. Nugent , Mr. Beauclerk , Mr. Langton , Dr. Gold- smith , Mr. Chamier , and Sir John Haw- kins . [ It was Johnson's original Hawk . intention , that the ...
... original mem- bers were , Sir Joshua Reynolds , Dr. Johnson , Mr. Edmund Burke , Dr. Nugent , Mr. Beauclerk , Mr. Langton , Dr. Gold- smith , Mr. Chamier , and Sir John Haw- kins . [ It was Johnson's original Hawk . intention , that the ...
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... original motive and all the parts were good . " Dr. Johnson had been a great reader of Mandeville , and was ever on the watch to spy out those stains of original corruption , so easily discovered by a penetrating ob- server even in the ...
... original motive and all the parts were good . " Dr. Johnson had been a great reader of Mandeville , and was ever on the watch to spy out those stains of original corruption , so easily discovered by a penetrating ob- server even in the ...
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