The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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Page 249
... write ; for who would write to men who publish the letters of their friends , without their leave ? Yet I write to you in spite of my caution , to tell you that I shall be glad to see you , and that I wish you would empty your head of ...
... write ; for who would write to men who publish the letters of their friends , without their leave ? Yet I write to you in spite of my caution , to tell you that I shall be glad to see you , and that I wish you would empty your head of ...
Page 272
... write , and those who know how to write very seldom ramble . If Sidney had gone , as he desired , the great voyage with Drake , there would probably have been such a narrative as would have equally sat- isfied the poet and the ...
... write , and those who know how to write very seldom ramble . If Sidney had gone , as he desired , the great voyage with Drake , there would probably have been such a narrative as would have equally sat- isfied the poet and the ...
Page 518
... writes very rapidly 2. The great- and have nothing to take off their attention est part of a writer's time is spent in read from the affairs of the publick . JOHNSON . ing , in order to write ; a man will turn over " No judge , sir ...
... writes very rapidly 2. The great- and have nothing to take off their attention est part of a writer's time is spent in read from the affairs of the publick . JOHNSON . ing , in order to write ; a man will turn over " No judge , sir ...
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