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 3C. Ewer & T. Bedlington, 1824 - Authors, English |
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... seemed to hope he should be able to convince you of the antiquity of a good proportion of the poems of Ossian . After all that has passed , I think the matter is capable of being proved to a certain de- gree . I am told that Macpherson ...
... seemed to hope he should be able to convince you of the antiquity of a good proportion of the poems of Ossian . After all that has passed , I think the matter is capable of being proved to a certain de- gree . I am told that Macpherson ...
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... seemed to excite some ridicule . I was then so impressed with the truth of many of the stories of which I had been told , that I avowed my conviction , saying , " He is only willing to believe I do believe . The evidence is enough for ...
... seemed to excite some ridicule . I was then so impressed with the truth of many of the stories of which I had been told , that I avowed my conviction , saying , " He is only willing to believe I do believe . The evidence is enough for ...
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... seemed quite a cloud , amidst all the sunshine of glitter and ga- iety . I wondered at his patience in sitting out a play of five acts , and a farce of two . He said very little ; but after the prologue to " Bon Ton " had been spoken ...
... seemed quite a cloud , amidst all the sunshine of glitter and ga- iety . I wondered at his patience in sitting out a play of five acts , and a farce of two . He said very little ; but after the prologue to " Bon Ton " had been spoken ...
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... seemed to think that he had a strange unwillingness to be discovered . We could not divine what he did with them ; and this was the bold question to be put . Isaw on his table the spoils of the preceding night , some fresh peels nicely ...
... seemed to think that he had a strange unwillingness to be discovered . We could not divine what he did with them ; and this was the bold question to be put . Isaw on his table the spoils of the preceding night , some fresh peels nicely ...
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... to it as being a de- signation inferiour to that of Doctor ; but he checked me , and seemed pleased with it , because , as I conjectured , he liked to " Viro Reverendo THOMÆ FOTHERGILL , S. T. P. Universi- Etat . 66. ] 51 DR . JOHNSON .
... to it as being a de- signation inferiour to that of Doctor ; but he checked me , and seemed pleased with it , because , as I conjectured , he liked to " Viro Reverendo THOMÆ FOTHERGILL , S. T. P. Universi- Etat . 66. ] 51 DR . JOHNSON .
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