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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... reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford ; November 17 , 1785 : - " Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where ...
... reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford ; November 17 , 1785 : - " Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where ...
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... : " Poor Mason has much abused Johnson since his death , for the great reason that Johnson always looked upon him as a pigmy poet . " cation of a mind revolving with violent commotion . Thus 6 THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
... : " Poor Mason has much abused Johnson since his death , for the great reason that Johnson always looked upon him as a pigmy poet . " cation of a mind revolving with violent commotion . Thus 6 THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
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... reason- able share of wealth , of which however he afterwards lost the greatest part , by engaging unsuccessfully in a manufacture of parchment . He was a zealous high - churchman and royalist , and retained his attachment to the ...
... reason- able share of wealth , of which however he afterwards lost the greatest part , by engaging unsuccessfully in a manufacture of parchment . He was a zealous high - churchman and royalist , and retained his attachment to the ...
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... reason to doubt . For , there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly ...
... reason to doubt . For , there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly ...
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... , 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 their former charms they shew , Around them THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 25.
... , 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 their former charms they shew , Around them THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 25.
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