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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Page xvi
... once more resumed , a sort of epitome of Johnson's proceedings in Scotland follows , so that the ground is , in each case , gone over twice . Moreover , to smooth the joinings , Mr. Croker has arbitrarily taken on himself to alter ...
... once more resumed , a sort of epitome of Johnson's proceedings in Scotland follows , so that the ground is , in each case , gone over twice . Moreover , to smooth the joinings , Mr. Croker has arbitrarily taken on himself to alter ...
Page xxxi
... once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the pro- gress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to peruse it , and to ...
... once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the pro- gress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is inscribed , lived to peruse it , and to ...
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... once , and I am sure not above twice . Johnson might have esteemed him The greatest part of this book was written while Sir John Hawkins was alive , and I avow , that one object of my strictures was to make him feel some com- punction ...
... once , and I am sure not above twice . Johnson might have esteemed him The greatest part of this book was written while Sir John Hawkins was alive , and I avow , that one object of my strictures was to make him feel some com- punction ...
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... once lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop War- burton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the ...
... once lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop War- burton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the ...
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... once himself of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , " they never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ; but such a one is as good a scholar as ...
... once himself of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , " they never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ; but such a one is as good a scholar as ...
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