The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 3G. Dearborn, 1835 |
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... allowed that the circumstances of difficulty enhance the value of a marble head , we should consider , that if it ... allow it then in wri ting ? Why do you take the trouble to give us so many fine allu- sions , and bright images ...
... allowed that the circumstances of difficulty enhance the value of a marble head , we should consider , that if it ... allow it then in wri ting ? Why do you take the trouble to give us so many fine allu- sions , and bright images ...
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... allow very great merit to his composition . Mr. Murphy said , he remembered when there were several people alive in London , who enjoyed a considerable reputation merely from having written a paper in " The Spectator . " He mentioned ...
... allow very great merit to his composition . Mr. Murphy said , he remembered when there were several people alive in London , who enjoyed a considerable reputation merely from having written a paper in " The Spectator . " He mentioned ...
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... allow Foote for life sixteen hundred pounds a year , as Reynolds told me , and to allow him to play so often on such terms that he may gain four hundred pounds more . What Colman can get by this bargain , ' but trouble and hazard , I do ...
... allow Foote for life sixteen hundred pounds a year , as Reynolds told me , and to allow him to play so often on such terms that he may gain four hundred pounds more . What Colman can get by this bargain , ' but trouble and hazard , I do ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 11 |
Letters to Boswell c Religious Festivals and PilgrimagesDeath of GoldsmithGreek | 40 |
CHAPTER III | 69 |
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