The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... wrote it , as if I had seen him do it . Sir , had he shewn it to any one friend , he would not have been allowed to publish it . He has , indeed , done it very well ; but it is a foolish thing well done . I suppose he has been so much ...
... wrote it , as if I had seen him do it . Sir , had he shewn it to any one friend , he would not have been allowed to publish it . He has , indeed , done it very well ; but it is a foolish thing well done . I suppose he has been so much ...
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... wrote down when I went home , and have interwoven in the former part of this narrative . On Tuesday , April 13 , he and Dr. Goldsmith and I dined at General Oglethorpe's . Goldsmith expatiated on the common topic , that the race of our ...
... wrote down when I went home , and have interwoven in the former part of this narrative . On Tuesday , April 13 , he and Dr. Goldsmith and I dined at General Oglethorpe's . Goldsmith expatiated on the common topic , that the race of our ...
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... wrote it down for me , by which means it was preserved , and now appears amongst his poems . Dr. Johnson , in his way home , stopped at my lodgings in 1 The humours of Ballamagairy . B. See Goldsmith's Works , Globe Edition , p . 687 ...
... wrote it down for me , by which means it was preserved , and now appears amongst his poems . Dr. Johnson , in his way home , stopped at my lodgings in 1 The humours of Ballamagairy . B. See Goldsmith's Works , Globe Edition , p . 687 ...
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... wrote ; and I favoured him , for I read more deliberately than usual . I had proceeded but a very little way , when he begged I would desist , for he could not follow me . " Hearing now for the first time of this preface or dedica- tion ...
... wrote ; and I favoured him , for I read more deliberately than usual . I had proceeded but a very little way , when he begged I would desist , for he could not follow me . " Hearing now for the first time of this preface or dedica- tion ...
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... wrote upon it , entitled , The Essence of the Douglas Cause ; which , I have reason to flatter myself , had consid- erable effect in favour of Mr. Douglas : of whose legitimate filia- tion I was then , and am still , firmly convinced ...
... wrote upon it , entitled , The Essence of the Douglas Cause ; which , I have reason to flatter myself , had consid- erable effect in favour of Mr. Douglas : of whose legitimate filia- tion I was then , and am still , firmly convinced ...
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