The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprising a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons ...Routledge, 1867 - 526 pages |
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... Italy - Johnson visits Oxford - Returns to London - His Contempt for Popular Liberty - Dr . Kenrick's Pamphlet - John- son places Francis Barber at School - Conversa- tional strictures on Thomson the Poet and Dr. Mounsey - Origin of the ...
... Italy - Johnson visits Oxford - Returns to London - His Contempt for Popular Liberty - Dr . Kenrick's Pamphlet - John- son places Francis Barber at School - Conversa- tional strictures on Thomson the Poet and Dr. Mounsey - Origin of the ...
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... Italy - The Infidel - Johnson's Opinions on Luxury -On Conversation - On the Bible - On the Liberty of the Pulpit - Meeting between Johnson and the celebrated John Wilkes - Their after - dinner Con- versation - Garrick - M'Swinney ...
... Italy - The Infidel - Johnson's Opinions on Luxury -On Conversation - On the Bible - On the Liberty of the Pulpit - Meeting between Johnson and the celebrated John Wilkes - Their after - dinner Con- versation - Garrick - M'Swinney ...
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... Italy - Public Criminals - Mr . Vilette- Dr. Knox - Mr . Pinkerton - Jamaica - Lord Ches- terfield - Lord Eliot - Lord Thurlow's Letter , in favour of Johnson - His Sensibility - Italy - Mrs . Thrale's intended Marriage , and her ...
... Italy - Public Criminals - Mr . Vilette- Dr. Knox - Mr . Pinkerton - Jamaica - Lord Ches- terfield - Lord Eliot - Lord Thurlow's Letter , in favour of Johnson - His Sensibility - Italy - Mrs . Thrale's intended Marriage , and her ...
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... Italy . I'll go to Padua . - And I'll mind my business . For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads . * 66 Dr. Adams told me that Johnson , while he was at Pembroke College , was caressed and loved by all about him , was a ...
... Italy . I'll go to Padua . - And I'll mind my business . For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads . * 66 Dr. Adams told me that Johnson , while he was at Pembroke College , was caressed and loved by all about him , was a ...
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... Italian , together with Le Courayer's Notes from the French , could not fail of a favourable reception . " If it be answered , that the history is already in English , it must be rembered , that there was the same objection against Le ...
... Italian , together with Le Courayer's Notes from the French , could not fail of a favourable reception . " If it be answered , that the history is already in English , it must be rembered , that there was the same objection against Le ...
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