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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Page iii
... common sense , and his ready wit , so strikingly shown in the series of conversations which the industry of Boswell has preserved to us — this book stands unrivalled in the literature of our own or any other nation . It is to be hoped ...
... common sense , and his ready wit , so strikingly shown in the series of conversations which the industry of Boswell has preserved to us — this book stands unrivalled in the literature of our own or any other nation . It is to be hoped ...
Page xi
... common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ingenious ; all these qualities I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery , as- cribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride in ...
... common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ingenious ; all these qualities I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery , as- cribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride in ...
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... common sports ; and he once plea- santly remarked to me , " how wonderfully well he had contrived to be idle without them . ' Chesterfield , however , has justly observed in one of his letters , when earnestly cautioning a friend ...
... common sports ; and he once plea- santly remarked to me , " how wonderfully well he had contrived to be idle without them . ' Chesterfield , however , has justly observed in one of his letters , when earnestly cautioning a friend ...
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... common attention paid to him ; of which remarkable instances were long remembered there . - PERCY . sional compositions . Of these I have ootained a considerable collection , by the favour of Mr. Wentworth , son of one of his masters ...
... common attention paid to him ; of which remarkable instances were long remembered there . - PERCY . sional compositions . Of these I have ootained a considerable collection , by the favour of Mr. Wentworth , son of one of his masters ...
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... common thought ; " that the Muse had come to him in his sleep , and whispered , that it did not become him to write on such subjects as politics ; he should confine himself to humbler themes " but the versification was truly Vir- gilian ...
... common thought ; " that the Muse had come to him in his sleep , and whispered , that it did not become him to write on such subjects as politics ; he should confine himself to humbler themes " but the versification was truly Vir- gilian ...
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