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 xiii
... taken . As at p . 93 , where the note Luns , " The words in italics are allusions to passages in Mr. Warton's poem , " & c . , which is wholly omitted , and a quotation from the poem itself substituted . At p . 99 is found a short note ...
... taken . As at p . 93 , where the note Luns , " The words in italics are allusions to passages in Mr. Warton's poem , " & c . , which is wholly omitted , and a quotation from the poem itself substituted . At p . 99 is found a short note ...
Page xiv
... taken , and adds , " altered to " as taken , that . " P. 778 , " compliment " made " compliments . " P. 291 , Embru is put for Enbru , the Scotch abbreviation for Edinburgh . P. 344 , a long passage relating to Lord Lovat is thrust out ...
... taken , and adds , " altered to " as taken , that . " P. 778 , " compliment " made " compliments . " P. 291 , Embru is put for Enbru , the Scotch abbreviation for Edinburgh . P. 344 , a long passage relating to Lord Lovat is thrust out ...
Page xv
... taken down on the occasion described . They are , therefore , a faithful record of the situa tion ; we seem to hear the great sage rolling forth his full periods ; we see his follower recording ; and it must have been an obtuse sense ...
... taken down on the occasion described . They are , therefore , a faithful record of the situa tion ; we seem to hear the great sage rolling forth his full periods ; we see his follower recording ; and it must have been an obtuse sense ...
Page xvi
... taken on himself to alter various phrases ; but the fact that the " Tour " had been written many years before the " Life , " and was cast in the shape of a diary , while the " Life " was cast in a grave and judicial key , ought to have ...
... taken on himself to alter various phrases ; but the fact that the " Tour " had been written many years before the " Life , " and was cast in the shape of a diary , while the " Life " was cast in a grave and judicial key , ought to have ...
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... taken by those who could not boast of gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of obscure extraction , who settled in Lichfield as a bookseller and stationer . His mother was Sarah Ford , descended of an ...
... taken by those who could not boast of gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of obscure extraction , who settled in Lichfield as a bookseller and stationer . His mother was Sarah Ford , descended of an ...
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