The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Bickers and Son, 1874 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... writing what they told me as his sayings . JOHNSON . " Why should you write down my sayings ? " BOSWELL . " I write them when they are good . " JOHNSON . " Nay , you may as well write down the sayings of any one else that are good ...
... writing what they told me as his sayings . JOHNSON . " Why should you write down my sayings ? " BOSWELL . " I write them when they are good . " JOHNSON . " Nay , you may as well write down the sayings of any one else that are good ...
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... write but a page a day , at the same rate , I should , in ten years , write nine volumes in folio , of an ordinary size and print . " BosWELL . " Such as Carte's History ? " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir . When a man writes from his own mind , he ...
... write but a page a day , at the same rate , I should , in ten years , write nine volumes in folio , of an ordinary size and print . " BosWELL . " Such as Carte's History ? " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir . When a man writes from his own mind , he ...
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... write a monthly miscellany , called The Visitor . ' There was a formal written contract , which Allen the printer saw . Gardner thought as you do of the Judge . They were bound to write nothing else . They were to have , I think , a ...
... write a monthly miscellany , called The Visitor . ' There was a formal written contract , which Allen the printer saw . Gardner thought as you do of the Judge . They were bound to write nothing else . They were to have , I think , a ...
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... writing being practised in one of the counties of England , we should not believe that a long poem was preserved there , though in the neighbouring counties , where the same language was spoken , the inhabitants could write . " BEAU ...
... writing being practised in one of the counties of England , we should not believe that a long poem was preserved there , though in the neighbouring counties , where the same language was spoken , the inhabitants could write . " BEAU ...
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... write . " Upon this I took occasion to controvert Horace's maxim , 66 mediocribus esse poetis Non Di , non homines ... writing ; but I was not sufficiently diligent in obtaining more from him , not apprehending that his friends were so ...
... write . " Upon this I took occasion to controvert Horace's maxim , 66 mediocribus esse poetis Non Di , non homines ... writing ; but I was not sufficiently diligent in obtaining more from him , not apprehending that his friends were so ...
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