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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Page 36
... speak , with which you are little acquainted , and has been heard to say , " I wicte torty - eight of the That shall be the criterion . Let me hear you printed octavo pages of the Life of Savage ' at a repeat the ninth Commandment ...
... speak , with which you are little acquainted , and has been heard to say , " I wicte torty - eight of the That shall be the criterion . Let me hear you printed octavo pages of the Life of Savage ' at a repeat the ninth Commandment ...
Page 44
... speak two lines with the bow - string round her neck . The audience cried out ' Murder ! Murder ! ' * She several times attempted to speak ; but in vain . At last she was obliged to go off the stage alive . " This passage was afterwards ...
... speak two lines with the bow - string round her neck . The audience cried out ' Murder ! Murder ! ' * She several times attempted to speak ; but in vain . At last she was obliged to go off the stage alive . " This passage was afterwards ...
Page 47
... speak of them . When I went into Norfolk , in the autumn of 1751 , I found but one person ( the Rev. Mr. Squires , a man of learning , and a general purchaser of new books ) who knew anything of them . But he been misin- formed ...
... speak of them . When I went into Norfolk , in the autumn of 1751 , I found but one person ( the Rev. Mr. Squires , a man of learning , and a general purchaser of new books ) who knew anything of them . But he been misin- formed ...
Page 58
... speak as one of the fraternity , though I have no part in the paper , beyond now and then a motto ; but two of the writers are my particular friends , and hope the pleasure of seeing a third united to them , will not be denied to , dear ...
... speak as one of the fraternity , though I have no part in the paper , beyond now and then a motto ; but two of the writers are my particular friends , and hope the pleasure of seeing a third united to them , will not be denied to , dear ...
Page 75
... speak from his own mind , regardless of the cant transmitted from age to age in praise of the ancient Romans . Thus : " I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome , which grew ...
... speak from his own mind , regardless of the cant transmitted from age to age in praise of the ancient Romans . Thus : " I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome , which grew ...
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