The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page 35
... admirable writer , to whom we have seen that Dr. Johnson directly allowed so little merit . - Boswell . " His attention to veracity , " says Mrs. Piozzi , " was without equal or ex- ample ; " and when I mentioned Clarissa as a perfect ...
... admirable writer , to whom we have seen that Dr. Johnson directly allowed so little merit . - Boswell . " His attention to veracity , " says Mrs. Piozzi , " was without equal or ex- ample ; " and when I mentioned Clarissa as a perfect ...
Page 64
... admirable writer , who , with almost every species of excellence , is peculiarly remarkable for that quality . The length of this note perhaps requires an apology . Many of my readers , I doubt not , will admit that a critical ...
... admirable writer , who , with almost every species of excellence , is peculiarly remarkable for that quality . The length of this note perhaps requires an apology . Many of my readers , I doubt not , will admit that a critical ...
Page 66
... admiration of the corresponding charms of the fair quaker . This record , though by no means so perfect as I could wish , will serve to give a notion of a very curious inter- view , which was not only pleasing at the time , but had the ...
... admiration of the corresponding charms of the fair quaker . This record , though by no means so perfect as I could wish , will serve to give a notion of a very curious inter- view , which was not only pleasing at the time , but had the ...
Page 70
... admirably . For instance , he tells us that the cow sheds her horns every two years ; a most pal- pable errour , which Goldsmith has faithfully transferred into his book . It is wonderful that Buffon , who lived so much in the country ...
... admirably . For instance , he tells us that the cow sheds her horns every two years ; a most pal- pable errour , which Goldsmith has faithfully transferred into his book . It is wonderful that Buffon , who lived so much in the country ...
Page 75
... admirable and encouraging ; and it must impress all the thinking part of my readers with a consolatory confidence in habitual devotion , when they see a man of such en- larged intellectual powers as Johnson , thus in the genuine ...
... admirable and encouraging ; and it must impress all the thinking part of my readers with a consolatory confidence in habitual devotion , when they see a man of such en- larged intellectual powers as Johnson , thus in the genuine ...
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