The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
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... written by Miss Reynolds , and entitled " Recollections of Dr. Johnson . " The authenticity and general accuracy of these " Recollections " cannot be doubted , and I had there- fore admitted extracts from them into the text of my first ...
... written by Miss Reynolds , and entitled " Recollections of Dr. Johnson . " The authenticity and general accuracy of these " Recollections " cannot be doubted , and I had there- fore admitted extracts from them into the text of my first ...
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... written with good sense , in an easy and perspicuous style , and without ( which seems odd enough ) any palpable imitation of Johnson . But in recording conversations he is unrivalled : that he was eminently accurate in substance , we ...
... written with good sense , in an easy and perspicuous style , and without ( which seems odd enough ) any palpable imitation of Johnson . But in recording conversations he is unrivalled : that he was eminently accurate in substance , we ...
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... writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endowments , or his various works , has been ... written by himself ; had he employed in the preservation of his own history , that clearness of narration and ...
... writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endowments , or his various works , has been ... written by himself ; had he employed in the preservation of his own history , that clearness of narration and ...
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... writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most ... written while Sir John Hawkins was alive ; and I avow , that one object of my strictures was to make him feel some ...
... writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most ... written while Sir John Hawkins was alive ; and I avow , that one object of my strictures was to make him feel some ...
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... writing a life , when they exhibit a chronological series of actions or prefer- ments ; and have so little regard to ... written by such as were not likely to give much instruction or delight , and why most accounts of particular persons ...
... writing a life , when they exhibit a chronological series of actions or prefer- ments ; and have so little regard to ... written by such as were not likely to give much instruction or delight , and why most accounts of particular persons ...
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