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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the ... - Page 155
by James Boswell - 1888
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...Dr. Johnson, who received it with great good humour, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they...of it ; but he would never consent to disgrace the watts of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription ." •' ' ' i Tom Davies, the bookseller, in...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...endeavoured to argue in favour 1776. sired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would *j£^~^ alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to...never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster 4bbey, ivith an English inscription. " I consider this Round Robin as a species of literary curiosity...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...who received it vtith mach good humour, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he wonld alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it : bat he would never content to disgrace the walla of Westminster Abbey with an English inscription....
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...to Dr. Johnson, who received it with much good humour, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they...Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. I consider thin Round Robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving, as it marks, in a certain degree,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1820 - 520 pages
...surely not right; for as to his claim to the last of those and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it; but hewould never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey, with an English inscription. " I...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Volume 3

James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...of literary curiosity worth preserving, as it marks, in a certain degree, Dr. Johnson's character." alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to...of it; but he would never consent to disgrace the ivalls of Westminster 'Abbey, with an English inscription. My readers are presented with a faithful...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and ...

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 458 pages
...noble seat, should have fallen into such a blunder. I suppose he has confounded the cow with the deer. Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense...Round Robin as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving1, as it marks, in a certain degree, Dr. Johnson's character." My readers are presented with...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1823 - 492 pages
...blunder. I suppose he has confounded the row with the deer. desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they...but he would never consent to, disgrace the walls oj 'Westminster Abbey with an English inscription. " 1 consider this Mound Robin as a species of literary...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of ..., Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...it to Dr Johnson, who received it with much goodhumour, and desired Sir Joshua to tell the gentlemen that he would alter the epitaph in any manner they...English inscription. I consider this Round Robin, » continues Sir William, « as a species of literary curiosity worth preserving, as it marks, in a...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson ...: Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson ...

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...an English epitaph on an English author. His reply was, in the genuine spirit of an old scholar, " he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster abbey with an English inscription." One of his arguments, in favour of a common learned language, was ludicrously cogeut : " Consider,...
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