Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.J.M.Dent, 1927 |
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... excellent TREATISE OF EQUITY , printed anonymously in 1742 , and lately republished with very valuable additions , by John Fonblanque , Esq . Mr. Ballow died suddenly in London , July 26 , 1782 , aged seventy - five , and is mentioned ...
... excellent TREATISE OF EQUITY , printed anonymously in 1742 , and lately republished with very valuable additions , by John Fonblanque , Esq . Mr. Ballow died suddenly in London , July 26 , 1782 , aged seventy - five , and is mentioned ...
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... excellent translator of " The Lusiad , " was there . I have preserved little of the conversation of this evening . Dr. Johnson said , " Thomson had a true poetical genuis , the 1 [ The authour did not recollect that of the books ...
... excellent translator of " The Lusiad , " was there . I have preserved little of the conversation of this evening . Dr. Johnson said , " Thomson had a true poetical genuis , the 1 [ The authour did not recollect that of the books ...
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... excellent Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare is addressed ; and Dr. Harwood , who has written and published various works ; particularly a fantastical translation of the New Testament , in modern phrase , and with a Socinian twist . I ...
... excellent Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare is addressed ; and Dr. Harwood , who has written and published various works ; particularly a fantastical translation of the New Testament , in modern phrase , and with a Socinian twist . I ...
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... excellent in its kind , when we are quite sober ? Wit is wit , by whatever means it is produced ; and , if good , will appear so at all times . I admit that the spirits are raised by drinking , as by the common participation of any ...
... excellent in its kind , when we are quite sober ? Wit is wit , by whatever means it is produced ; and , if good , will appear so at all times . I admit that the spirits are raised by drinking , as by the common participation of any ...
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... excellent dissertation , of which he dictated the first eight paragraphs on the 10th of May , and the remainder on the 13th , that there are in the whole only seven corrections , or rather variations , and those not considerable . Such ...
... excellent dissertation , of which he dictated the first eight paragraphs on the 10th of May , and the remainder on the 13th , that there are in the whole only seven corrections , or rather variations , and those not considerable . Such ...
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