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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... Young's " Night Thoughts - Swift - Rev . Joseph Spence - Attacks on " The Lives of the Poets " .395 CHAP . XLVII . 1781. - Johnson's Correspondence with Warren Hastings - Mr . Chambers - Mr . Hoole -Liberty and Necessity - Doctors ...
... Young's " Night Thoughts - Swift - Rev . Joseph Spence - Attacks on " The Lives of the Poets " .395 CHAP . XLVII . 1781. - Johnson's Correspondence with Warren Hastings - Mr . Chambers - Mr . Hoole -Liberty and Necessity - Doctors ...
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... young as he was , he believed he had caught the public spirit and zeal for Sache- verel , and would have stayed for ever . in the church , satisfied with beholding him . ' " Nor can I omit a little instance of that jealous independence ...
... young as he was , he believed he had caught the public spirit and zeal for Sache- verel , and would have stayed for ever . in the church , satisfied with beholding him . ' " Nor can I omit a little instance of that jealous independence ...
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... Young Johnson had the misfortune to be much afflicted with the scrofula , or king's evil , which disfigured a countenance naturally well formed , and hurt his visual nerves so much , that he did not see at all with one of his eyes ...
... Young Johnson had the misfortune to be much afflicted with the scrofula , or king's evil , which disfigured a countenance naturally well formed , and hurt his visual nerves so much , that he did not see at all with one of his eyes ...
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... young ladies in Lin- colnshire who were remarkably well behaved , owing to their mother's strict discipline and severe correction , he exclaimed , in one of Shak- speare's lines a little varied , t " Rod , I will honour thee for this ...
... young ladies in Lin- colnshire who were remarkably well behaved , owing to their mother's strict discipline and severe correction , he exclaimed , in one of Shak- speare's lines a little varied , t " Rod , I will honour thee for this ...
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... YOUNG LADY on her BIRTHDAY . " THIS tributary verse receive , my fair , Warm with an ardent lover's fondest prayer . May this returning day for ever find Thy form more lovely , more adorn'd thy mind ; All pains , all cares , may ...
... YOUNG LADY on her BIRTHDAY . " THIS tributary verse receive , my fair , Warm with an ardent lover's fondest prayer . May this returning day for ever find Thy form more lovely , more adorn'd thy mind ; All pains , all cares , may ...
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