The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 4G. Dearborn, 1835 |
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... talked very properly . Lord Camden was a lit- ile lawyer to be associating so familiarly with a player . " " " Sir Joshua Reynolds observed , with great truth , that Johnson considered Garrick to be as it were his property . He would ...
... talked very properly . Lord Camden was a lit- ile lawyer to be associating so familiarly with a player . " " " Sir Joshua Reynolds observed , with great truth , that Johnson considered Garrick to be as it were his property . He would ...
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... talked on that subject . This , it seems , ex- asperated him , though he said nothing at the time . The cloud was charged with sulphureous vapour , which was afterwards to burst in thunder . We talked of a gentleman [ Mr. Langton ] ...
... talked on that subject . This , it seems , ex- asperated him , though he said nothing at the time . The cloud was charged with sulphureous vapour , which was afterwards to burst in thunder . We talked of a gentleman [ Mr. Langton ] ...
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... talked of than Pope , and Homer is less talked of than Virgil ; but they are not less admired . We must read what the world reads at the moment . It has been maintained that this superfetation , this teeming of the press in modern times ...
... talked of than Pope , and Homer is less talked of than Virgil ; but they are not less admired . We must read what the world reads at the moment . It has been maintained that this superfetation , this teeming of the press in modern times ...
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