Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.J.M.Dent, 1927 |
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... writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then ... write several of the Lives ; which , ( as we are told , ) he , accordingly , performed . He was farther useful in ...
... writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then ... write several of the Lives ; which , ( as we are told , ) he , accordingly , performed . He was farther useful in ...
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... write chiefly from their own minds . The Monthly Reviewers are duller men , and are glad to read the books through . " He talked of Lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an authour ; observing , that " he was thirty years in preparing his ...
... write chiefly from their own minds . The Monthly Reviewers are duller men , and are glad to read the books through . " He talked of Lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an authour ; observing , that " he was thirty years in preparing his ...
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... write was a distinction at first ; but we see when reading and writing have become general , the common people keep their stations . And so , were higher attainments to become general , the effect would be the same . " " Goldsmith ( he ...
... write was a distinction at first ; but we see when reading and writing have become general , the common people keep their stations . And so , were higher attainments to become general , the effect would be the same . " " Goldsmith ( he ...
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... writing employed in them , when the authours were to remain unknown , and so could not have the motive of fame . JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , those who write in them , write well in order to be paid well . " Soon after this day , he went to ...
... writing employed in them , when the authours were to remain unknown , and so could not have the motive of fame . JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , those who write in them , write well in order to be paid well . " Soon after this day , he went to ...
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... " When I was a young fellow I wanted to write the ' Life of Dryden , ' and in order to get materials , I applied to the only two persons then alive who had seen him ; these were old Swinney , 1 50 The Life of Dr. Johnson.
... " When I was a young fellow I wanted to write the ' Life of Dryden , ' and in order to get materials , I applied to the only two persons then alive who had seen him ; these were old Swinney , 1 50 The Life of Dr. Johnson.
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