The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... pleased to favour me with a speedy answer , if you are not willing to engage in this scheme ; and appoint me a day to wait upon you , if you are . " I am , sir , " Your humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " It should seem from this ...
... pleased to favour me with a speedy answer , if you are not willing to engage in this scheme ; and appoint me a day to wait upon you , if you are . " I am , sir , " Your humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " It should seem from this ...
Page 70
... pleased to permit Mr. Langton to take a copy of it for himself . The whole of it is rich in thought and imagery , and happy expressions ; and of the disjecta membra ' scattered throughout , and as yet unarranged , a good dramatick poet ...
... pleased to permit Mr. Langton to take a copy of it for himself . The whole of it is rich in thought and imagery , and happy expressions ; and of the disjecta membra ' scattered throughout , and as yet unarranged , a good dramatick poet ...
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... pleased me to find amongst them one trait of the manners of the age in London , in the last century , to shield from the sneer of English ridicule , what was some time ago too common a practice in my native city of Edinburgh . If what I ...
... pleased me to find amongst them one trait of the manners of the age in London , in the last century , to shield from the sneer of English ridicule , what was some time ago too common a practice in my native city of Edinburgh . If what I ...
Page 81
... return you thanks for the present you were so kind as to send by me , and to entreat that you will VOL . I. • His Ode Ad Urbanum , probably . — NICHOLS . G be pleased to inform me by the penny - post ĘTAT . 29. ] 81 DR . JOHNSON .
... return you thanks for the present you were so kind as to send by me , and to entreat that you will VOL . I. • His Ode Ad Urbanum , probably . — NICHOLS . G be pleased to inform me by the penny - post ĘTAT . 29. ] 81 DR . JOHNSON .
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James Boswell. be pleased to inform me by the penny - post , whether you resolve to print the poem . If you please to send it me by the post , with a note to Dodsley , I will go and read the lines to him , that we may have his consent to ...
James Boswell. be pleased to inform me by the penny - post , whether you resolve to print the poem . If you please to send it me by the post , with a note to Dodsley , I will go and read the lines to him , that we may have his consent to ...
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