The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 - Authors, English |
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... publick would not give you a bad reception , if , beside the current wit of the month , which a critical examination would generally reduce to a narrow compass , you admitted not only poems , inscriptions , & c . , never printed before ...
... publick would not give you a bad reception , if , beside the current wit of the month , which a critical examination would generally reduce to a narrow compass , you admitted not only poems , inscriptions , & c . , never printed before ...
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... publick importance . They have accordingly been collected in volumes , properly arranged , and recommended to the notice of parliamentary speakers by a Preface , written by no inferiour hand . * I must , however , observe , that ...
... publick importance . They have accordingly been collected in volumes , properly arranged , and recommended to the notice of parliamentary speakers by a Preface , written by no inferiour hand . * I must , however , observe , that ...
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... publick composition by him except an account which he gave in the Gentleman's Magazine of Mr. Tytler's acute and able vindication of Mary Queen of Scots . * 1 The generosity of Johnson's feelings shines forth in the following sentence ...
... publick composition by him except an account which he gave in the Gentleman's Magazine of Mr. Tytler's acute and able vindication of Mary Queen of Scots . * 1 The generosity of Johnson's feelings shines forth in the following sentence ...
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