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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... there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and being entertained with the whole . I wish , indeed , some few gross expres- sions had been softened and a few of our hero's To write the Life of him who excelled all mankind.
... there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and being entertained with the whole . I wish , indeed , some few gross expres- sions had been softened and a few of our hero's To write the Life of him who excelled all mankind.
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... wish to depreciate him , should , since his death , have laid hold of this circumstance , and insisted upon it with very unfair aggravation . Amidst the oppression , and distraction of a disease , which very few have felt in its full ex ...
... wish to depreciate him , should , since his death , have laid hold of this circumstance , and insisted upon it with very unfair aggravation . Amidst the oppression , and distraction of a disease , which very few have felt in its full ex ...
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... wish that his life should be written . The debates in Parliament , which were brought home and digested by Guthrie , whose memory , though surpassed by others who have since followed him in the same department , was yet very quick and ...
... wish that his life should be written . The debates in Parliament , which were brought home and digested by Guthrie , whose memory , though surpassed by others who have since followed him in the same department , was yet very quick and ...
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... Wishes , being the Tenth Satire of Juvenal imitated . " [ * ] He , I believe , composed it the preceding year . * Mrs. Johnson , for the sake of country air , had lodgings at Hampstead , to which he resorted occasionally , and there the ...
... Wishes , being the Tenth Satire of Juvenal imitated . " [ * ] He , I believe , composed it the preceding year . * Mrs. Johnson , for the sake of country air , had lodgings at Hampstead , to which he resorted occasionally , and there the ...
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... Wishes , ' which is as hard as Greek . Had he gone on to imitate another satire , it would have been as hard as Hebrew . " * But " The Vanity of Human Wishes " is , in the opinion of the best judges , as high an effort of ethic poetry ...
... Wishes , ' which is as hard as Greek . Had he gone on to imitate another satire , it would have been as hard as Hebrew . " * But " The Vanity of Human Wishes " is , in the opinion of the best judges , as high an effort of ethic poetry ...
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