The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... admirable philosophical tale , the principal scene of which is laid in that country . * Johnson returned to Lichfield early in 1734 , and in August that year he made an attempt to procure some little subsistence by his pen ; for he ...
... admirable philosophical tale , the principal scene of which is laid in that country . * Johnson returned to Lichfield early in 1734 , and in August that year he made an attempt to procure some little subsistence by his pen ; for he ...
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... admirable Essays which he wrote for it . Though Johnson was often solicited by his friends to make a complete list of his writings , and talked of doing it , I believe with a serious intention that they should all be collected on his ...
... admirable Essays which he wrote for it . Though Johnson was often solicited by his friends to make a complete list of his writings , and talked of doing it , I believe with a serious intention that they should all be collected on his ...
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... admiration of his philological attainments . It was afterwards prefixed to the first volume of the Catalogue , in which the Latin accounts of books were written by him . He was employed in this business by Mr. Thomas Osborne , the ...
... admiration of his philological attainments . It was afterwards prefixed to the first volume of the Catalogue , in which the Latin accounts of books were written by him . He was employed in this business by Mr. Thomas Osborne , the ...
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... admirable specimen of his genius for lyric poetry . But the year 1747 is distinguished as the epoch when Johnson's arduous and important work , his " DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE , " was announced to the world , by the publication ...
... admirable specimen of his genius for lyric poetry . But the year 1747 is distinguished as the epoch when Johnson's arduous and important work , his " DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE , " was announced to the world , by the publication ...
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... admiration of Mil- ton's great poetical merit , to which he has done illustrious jus- tice , beyond all who have written upon the subject . And this year he not only wrote a Prologue , which was spoken by Mr. Garrick , before the acting ...
... admiration of Mil- ton's great poetical merit , to which he has done illustrious jus- tice , beyond all who have written upon the subject . And this year he not only wrote a Prologue , which was spoken by Mr. Garrick , before the acting ...
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