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 : in Three Volumes ...Henry Baldwin, 1793 - Authors, English |
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... heard him following her , " What's the matter ? " faid fhe . " I can fay it , " he replied ; and repeated it diftinctly , though he could not have read it more than twice . + But there has been another ftory of his infant precocity ...
... heard him following her , " What's the matter ? " faid fhe . " I can fay it , " he replied ; and repeated it diftinctly , though he could not have read it more than twice . + But there has been another ftory of his infant precocity ...
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... heard it from his mother . So difficult is it to obtain an authentick relation of facts , and fuch authority may there be for errour ; for he affured me , that his father made the verses , and wifhed to pass them for his child's . He ...
... heard it from his mother . So difficult is it to obtain an authentick relation of facts , and fuch authority may there be for errour ; for he affured me , that his father made the verses , and wifhed to pass them for his child's . He ...
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... heard or read . Mr. Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little paufe , he repeated verbatim , varying only one epithet , by which he improved the line . He never joined with the other boys in their ...
... heard or read . Mr. Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little paufe , he repeated verbatim , varying only one epithet , by which he improved the line . He never joined with the other boys in their ...
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... heard him attri- bute to these extravagant fictions , that unsettled turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing in any profeffion . " After having refided for fome time at the house of his uncle , Cornelius Ford , Johnfon was , at ...
... heard him attri- bute to these extravagant fictions , that unsettled turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing in any profeffion . " After having refided for fome time at the house of his uncle , Cornelius Ford , Johnfon was , at ...
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... heard of it . A mifcellany of Poems collected by a perfon of the name of Husbands , was published at Oxford in 1731. In that mifcellany Johnson's Translation of the Meffiah appeared , with this modeft motto from Scaliger's Poeticks ...
... heard of it . A mifcellany of Poems collected by a perfon of the name of Husbands , was published at Oxford in 1731. In that mifcellany Johnson's Translation of the Meffiah appeared , with this modeft motto from Scaliger's Poeticks ...
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