The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 4G. Dearborn, 1835 |
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... literary ambition , Had this happened twenty years ago , I should have gone to Constantinople to learn Arabick , as Pococke did . ' " As an instance of the niceness of his taste , though he praised West's translation of Pindar , he ...
... literary ambition , Had this happened twenty years ago , I should have gone to Constantinople to learn Arabick , as Pococke did . ' " As an instance of the niceness of his taste , though he praised West's translation of Pindar , he ...
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... Literary Curiosities , ' favoured the public with an original memorandum of Dr. Johnson's , of hints for the Life of Pope , ' written down as they were suggested to his mind in the course of his researches . This is none of the least of ...
... Literary Curiosities , ' favoured the public with an original memorandum of Dr. Johnson's , of hints for the Life of Pope , ' written down as they were suggested to his mind in the course of his researches . This is none of the least of ...
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... literary man could not be very entertaining . JOHNSON . " But it certainly may . This is a remark which has been made , and repeated , without justice . Why should the life of a literary man be less entertaining than the life of any ...
... literary man could not be very entertaining . JOHNSON . " But it certainly may . This is a remark which has been made , and repeated , without justice . Why should the life of a literary man be less entertaining than the life of any ...
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