The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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Page 24
... look upon Robertson's work as romance , and try it by that standard . History it is not . Besides , Sir , it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold . Goldsmith has done this in his History ...
... look upon Robertson's work as romance , and try it by that standard . History it is not . Besides , Sir , it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold . Goldsmith has done this in his History ...
Page 89
... look forward with delight to this futurity of Whiggism . " How it ended I know not , as it is cut off abruptly at the foot of the last of these proof pages . His pamphlets in support of the measures of Adminis- tration were published on ...
... look forward with delight to this futurity of Whiggism . " How it ended I know not , as it is cut off abruptly at the foot of the last of these proof pages . His pamphlets in support of the measures of Adminis- tration were published on ...
Page 90
... looks , appeared to me to impress him much . One was , " A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson , occasioned by his late political Publications . " It appeared previous to his " Taxation no Tyranny , " and was written by Dr. Joseph Towers . In ...
... looks , appeared to me to impress him much . One was , " A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson , occasioned by his late political Publications . " It appeared previous to his " Taxation no Tyranny , " and was written by Dr. Joseph Towers . In ...
Page 110
... look , " Ah ! poor George the Second . " I mentioned that Dr. Thomas Campbell had come from Ireland to London , principally to see Dr. Johnson . He seemed angry at this observation . DAVIES : " Why , you know , Sir , there came a man ...
... look , " Ah ! poor George the Second . " I mentioned that Dr. Thomas Campbell had come from Ireland to London , principally to see Dr. Johnson . He seemed angry at this observation . DAVIES : " Why , you know , Sir , there came a man ...
Page 114
... look for what the Classics have said of Italy , must find the same passages ; and I should think it would be one of the first things the Italians would do on the revival of learning , to collect all that the Roman authors have said . of ...
... look for what the Classics have said of Italy , must find the same passages ; and I should think it would be one of the first things the Italians would do on the revival of learning , to collect all that the Roman authors have said . of ...
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