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... " 66 Having asked Mr. Langton if his father and mother had sat for their pictures , which he thought Ætat . 71 . 1780. it right for each generation B 2 DR . JOHNSON . 3 so little learning or taste in writing, as to ...
... " 66 Having asked Mr. Langton if his father and mother had sat for their pictures , which he thought Ætat . 71 . 1780. it right for each generation B 2 DR . JOHNSON . 3 so little learning or taste in writing, as to ...
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... replied , Sir , I thought it had been better . " 6 · " Talking of a point of delicate scrupulosity of moral conduct , he said to Mr. Langton , Men of harder minds than ours will do many things from 1780 4 THE LIFE OF Ætat. 71. ...
... replied , Sir , I thought it had been better . " 6 · " Talking of a point of delicate scrupulosity of moral conduct , he said to Mr. Langton , Men of harder minds than ours will do many things from 1780 4 THE LIFE OF Ætat. 71. ...
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... thought I had been uttering in my own character . " " One evening in company , an ingenious and learned gentleman read to him a letter of compliment which he had received from one of the Professors of a Foreign University . Johnson , in ...
... thought I had been uttering in my own character . " " One evening in company , an ingenious and learned gentleman read to him a letter of compliment which he had received from one of the Professors of a Foreign University . Johnson , in ...
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... thought so , though I should have been mistaken , I told a moral truth . " 4 " " Huggins , the translator of Ariosto , and Mr. Thomas Warton , in the early part of his literary life , had a dispute concerning that poet , of whom Mr ...
... thought so , though I should have been mistaken , I told a moral truth . " 4 " " Huggins , the translator of Ariosto , and Mr. Thomas Warton , in the early part of his literary life , had a dispute concerning that poet , of whom Mr ...
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... thought . " 66 Talking of the minuteness with which people will record the sayings of eminent persons , a story was told , that when Pope was on a visit to Spence at Oxford , as they looked from the window they saw a Gentleman Commoner ...
... thought . " 66 Talking of the minuteness with which people will record the sayings of eminent persons , a story was told , that when Pope was on a visit to Spence at Oxford , as they looked from the window they saw a Gentleman Commoner ...
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