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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... obliged literally to pray con- tinually -had the madness turned the oppofite way and the person thought it a crime ever to pray , it might not improbably have continued unobserved . " He apprehended that the delineation of charac- ters ...
... obliged literally to pray con- tinually -had the madness turned the oppofite way and the person thought it a crime ever to pray , it might not improbably have continued unobserved . " He apprehended that the delineation of charac- ters ...
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... obliging letter upon this work , makes the following remark . " Dr. Johnfon has alluded to the worthy man employed in the tranflation of the New Teftament . Might not this have afforded you an opportunity of paying a proper tribute of ...
... obliging letter upon this work , makes the following remark . " Dr. Johnfon has alluded to the worthy man employed in the tranflation of the New Teftament . Might not this have afforded you an opportunity of paying a proper tribute of ...
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... obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the other's life of Boileau , where there is fuch a dull , heavy fucceffion of long quotations of dif- interesting paffages , that it makes their method quite naufeous , But the verbose ...
... obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the other's life of Boileau , where there is fuch a dull , heavy fucceffion of long quotations of dif- interesting paffages , that it makes their method quite naufeous , But the verbose ...
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... obliged to stoop down on his hands and knees to take a view of the kennel before he ventured to step over it . His schoolmistress , afraid that he might mifs his way , or fall into the kennel , or be run over by a cart , followed him at ...
... obliged to stoop down on his hands and knees to take a view of the kennel before he ventured to step over it . His schoolmistress , afraid that he might mifs his way , or fall into the kennel , or be run over by a cart , followed him at ...
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... oblige him more than by faunter- ing away the hours of vacation in the fields , during which he was more engaged in talking to himself than to his companion . " Dr. Percy , the Bishop of Dromore , who was long intimately acquainted with ...
... oblige him more than by faunter- ing away the hours of vacation in the fields , during which he was more engaged in talking to himself than to his companion . " Dr. Percy , the Bishop of Dromore , who was long intimately acquainted with ...
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