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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... question , and if he did not answer it , he would beat him , without considering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it . For instance , he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick , which the boy could ...
... question , and if he did not answer it , he would beat him , without considering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it . For instance , he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick , which the boy could ...
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... question Johnson upon ; but I have been assured by Dr. Taylor , that the scheme never would have taken place , had not a gentle- man of Shropshire , one of his schoolfellows , spon- taneously undertaken to support him at Oxford , in the ...
... question Johnson upon ; but I have been assured by Dr. Taylor , that the scheme never would have taken place , had not a gentle- man of Shropshire , one of his schoolfellows , spon- taneously undertaken to support him at Oxford , in the ...
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... question of such extreme nicety . But I am satisfied with the just and discriminative eulogy pronounced upon it by my friend Mr. Courtenay : - " And with like ease his vivid lines assume The garb and dignity of ancient Rome.- Let ...
... question of such extreme nicety . But I am satisfied with the just and discriminative eulogy pronounced upon it by my friend Mr. Courtenay : - " And with like ease his vivid lines assume The garb and dignity of ancient Rome.- Let ...
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... question . I do not doubt but you will look over this poem with another eye , and reward it in a different manner from a mercenary bookseller , who counts the lines he is to purchase , and con- siders nothing but the bulk . I cannot ...
... question . I do not doubt but you will look over this poem with another eye , and reward it in a different manner from a mercenary bookseller , who counts the lines he is to purchase , and con- siders nothing but the bulk . I cannot ...
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... question to which you wish for an answer . ' I am , Sir , your humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " 66 TO MR . CAVE . " * Mr. Seward that she was the translator of the Indeed Mrs. Carter has lately acknowledged tr " Examen . " letter to ...
... question to which you wish for an answer . ' I am , Sir , your humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " 66 TO MR . CAVE . " * Mr. Seward that she was the translator of the Indeed Mrs. Carter has lately acknowledged tr " Examen . " letter to ...
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