The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Heritage Press, 1963 - Authors, English |
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... heard him relate , was an Irish painter , whom he knew at Birmingham , and who had practised his own precepts of economy for several years in the British capital . He assured Johnson , who , I suppose , was then meditating to try his ...
... heard him relate , was an Irish painter , whom he knew at Birmingham , and who had practised his own precepts of economy for several years in the British capital . He assured Johnson , who , I suppose , was then meditating to try his ...
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... heard Dr. Johnson say , that he thought this wrote [ H ] a So have I heard him was the best thing he ever wrote.a say . [ 1 ] In January , 1749 , he published ' THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES , being the Tenth Satire of Juvenal imitated ...
... heard Dr. Johnson say , that he thought this wrote [ H ] a So have I heard him was the best thing he ever wrote.a say . [ 1 ] In January , 1749 , he published ' THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES , being the Tenth Satire of Juvenal imitated ...
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... heard , that Johnson , when observing to him that it was prudent for a man who had not been accustomed to speak in publick , to begin his speech in as simple a manner as possible , acknowledged that he rose in that society to deliver a ...
... heard , that Johnson , when observing to him that it was prudent for a man who had not been accustomed to speak in publick , to begin his speech in as simple a manner as possible , acknowledged that he rose in that society to deliver a ...
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