The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 8Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 |
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... favour ; Mr. Peter Garrick assured me that he was told by a lady , that , in her opinion , Johnson was " a very seducing man . " Disadvantages of person and manner may be forgotten , where intellectual pleasure is communicated to a ...
... favour ; Mr. Peter Garrick assured me that he was told by a lady , that , in her opinion , Johnson was " a very seducing man . " Disadvantages of person and manner may be forgotten , where intellectual pleasure is communicated to a ...
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... favour worthy of public acknowledgment : " but he has not owned to whom he was obliged ; so that the ac- knowledgment is unappropriated to his grace . ( 2 ) While the world in general was filled with admir- ation of Johnson's " Lives of ...
... favour worthy of public acknowledgment : " but he has not owned to whom he was obliged ; so that the ac- knowledgment is unappropriated to his grace . ( 2 ) While the world in general was filled with admir- ation of Johnson's " Lives of ...
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... favour of its author , my amiable friend , the Reve- rend Mr. Bevil , who published it without his name . It is juvenile performance , but elegantly written , with classical enthu siasm of sentiment , and yet with a becoming modesty ...
... favour of its author , my amiable friend , the Reve- rend Mr. Bevil , who published it without his name . It is juvenile performance , but elegantly written , with classical enthu siasm of sentiment , and yet with a becoming modesty ...
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... favour . His father is now pre- sident of the college of physicians ; a man venerable for his knowledge , and more venerable for his virtue . " I wish you a prosperous government , a safe return , ( 1 ) The " Journey to the Western ...
... favour . His father is now pre- sident of the college of physicians ; a man venerable for his knowledge , and more venerable for his virtue . " I wish you a prosperous government , a safe return , ( 1 ) The " Journey to the Western ...
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... favour in promoting his proposals , and flatters me by supposing that my testimony may advance his interest . - “ It is a new thing for a clerk of the India - house to translate poets ; it is new for a governor of Bengal to patronise ...
... favour in promoting his proposals , and flatters me by supposing that my testimony may advance his interest . - “ It is a new thing for a clerk of the India - house to translate poets ; it is new for a governor of Bengal to patronise ...
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