The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works in Chronological Order ; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons ; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published ; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 2Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1851 |
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... afterwards passed a month at Oxford . He had then contracted a great intimacy with Mr. Chambers of that University , afterwards Sir Robert Chambers , one of the judges in India . He published nothing this year in his own name ; but the ...
... afterwards passed a month at Oxford . He had then contracted a great intimacy with Mr. Chambers of that University , afterwards Sir Robert Chambers , one of the judges in India . He published nothing this year in his own name ; but the ...
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... afterwards , he supped at the Crown and Anchor tavern , in the Strand , with a company whom I collected to meet him . They were Dr. Percy , now Bishop of Dromore , Dr. Douglas , now Bishop of Salis- bury , Mr. Langton , Dr. Robert- son ...
... afterwards , he supped at the Crown and Anchor tavern , in the Strand , with a company whom I collected to meet him . They were Dr. Percy , now Bishop of Dromore , Dr. Douglas , now Bishop of Salis- bury , Mr. Langton , Dr. Robert- son ...
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... afterwards , her apartment . " Then we went to Julien Le Roy , the King's watchmaker , a man of cha- racter in his business , who showed a small clock made to find the longitude . -A decent man . " Afterwards we saw the Palais Marchand ...
... afterwards , her apartment . " Then we went to Julien Le Roy , the King's watchmaker , a man of cha- racter in his business , who showed a small clock made to find the longitude . -A decent man . " Afterwards we saw the Palais Marchand ...
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Frontispiece Johnsons interview with George III | 6 |
Johnsons fit of laughter at the Temple Gate from an original drawing 170 | 7 |
17661767 | 9 |
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