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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... character ; and as I have spared no pains in obtaining materials concerning him , from every quarter where I could discover that they were to be found , and have been favoured with the most liberal communications by his friends ; I ...
... character ; and as I have spared no pains in obtaining materials concerning him , from every quarter where I could discover that they were to be found , and have been favoured with the most liberal communications by his friends ; I ...
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... character is more fully understood and illustrated . Indeed , I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writing any man's life , than not only relating all the most important events of it in their order , but interweaving what he ...
... character is more fully understood and illustrated . Indeed , I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writing any man's life , than not only relating all the most important events of it in their order , but interweaving what he ...
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... character more than the greatest sieges , or the most important battles . " To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit . acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable ...
... character more than the greatest sieges , or the most important battles . " To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit . acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable ...
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... character ; of that poetic talent which afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for , excepting his orthographic works , everything which Dr Johnson wrote was poetry , whose essence consists , not in numbers , or in jingle ...
... character ; of that poetic talent which afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for , excepting his orthographic works , everything which Dr Johnson wrote was poetry , whose essence consists , not in numbers , or in jingle ...
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... character in the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards be- came ... characters , is often a matter of undecided contest , being as clear in his case as the superiority of stature in ...
... character in the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards be- came ... characters , is often a matter of undecided contest , being as clear in his case as the superiority of stature in ...
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