The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Bickers and Son, 1874 - Authors, English |
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... Garrick , organizing some private theatricals , applied to Johnson for a prologue , who , for some reason , declined to furnish it , and chose to take this secret mode of doing so . - Davies ' Life of Garrick , chap . i . Unfaded still ...
... Garrick , organizing some private theatricals , applied to Johnson for a prologue , who , for some reason , declined to furnish it , and chose to take this secret mode of doing so . - Davies ' Life of Garrick , chap . i . Unfaded still ...
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... of his name signified residence . There is indeed no putting aside the force of this argument : The ghastly smiles . Mr. Garrick may do it with better 38 THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . of a complete academical education. The friend to whom ...
... of his name signified residence . There is indeed no putting aside the force of this argument : The ghastly smiles . Mr. Garrick may do it with better 38 THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . of a complete academical education. The friend to whom ...
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... Garrick , 1 father of the great ornament of the British stage ; but above all , Mr. Gilbert Walmsley , " Register of the Prerogative Court of Lichfield , whose character , long after his decease , Dr. Johnson has , in his life of Edmund ...
... Garrick , 1 father of the great ornament of the British stage ; but above all , Mr. Gilbert Walmsley , " Register of the Prerogative Court of Lichfield , whose character , long after his decease , Dr. Johnson has , in his life of Edmund ...
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... Garrick , whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend . But what are the hopes of man ! I am dis- appointed by that stroke of death , which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations , and impoverished the publick ...
... Garrick , whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend . But what are the hopes of man ! I am dis- appointed by that stroke of death , which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations , and impoverished the publick ...
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... Garrick's first performance at Drury Lane , and broke the news of the dis- grace to " Mr. Peter Garrick , " David's brother . - Forster's Goldsmith , book iii . C. 2 . 2 It is Budworth , not Blackwall , as the younger Boswell points out ...
... Garrick's first performance at Drury Lane , and broke the news of the dis- grace to " Mr. Peter Garrick , " David's brother . - Forster's Goldsmith , book iii . C. 2 . 2 It is Budworth , not Blackwall , as the younger Boswell points out ...
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