The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... respect could I dis- cern any defect in his vision ; on the contrary , the force of his . attention and perceptive quickness made him see and distinguish all manner of objects , whether of nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely ...
... respect could I dis- cern any defect in his vision ; on the contrary , the force of his . attention and perceptive quickness made him see and distinguish all manner of objects , whether of nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely ...
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... respect , and he complained grievously of it in his letters to his friend , Mr. Hector , who was now settled as a surgeon at Birmingham . The letters are lost ; but Mr. Hector recollects his writing " that the poet had described the ...
... respect , and he complained grievously of it in his letters to his friend , Mr. Hector , who was now settled as a surgeon at Birmingham . The letters are lost ; but Mr. Hector recollects his writing " that the poet had described the ...
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... respect ; and that though he loved to exhilarate himself with wine , he never knew him intoxicated but once . In a man whom religious education has secured from licen- tious indulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized ...
... respect ; and that though he loved to exhilarate himself with wine , he never knew him intoxicated but once . In a man whom religious education has secured from licen- tious indulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized ...
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... respect , an exquisitely beautiful Ode , which has not been inserted in any of the collections of Johnson's poetry , written by him at a very early period , as Mr. Hector informs me , and inserted in the " Gentleman's Magazine " of this ...
... respect , an exquisitely beautiful Ode , which has not been inserted in any of the collections of Johnson's poetry , written by him at a very early period , as Mr. Hector informs me , and inserted in the " Gentleman's Magazine " of this ...
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... respect to the interest , which a great perplexity of affairs hindered me from thinking of with that attention that I ought , and which I am not immediately able to remit to you , but will pay it ( I think twelve pounds ) in two months ...
... respect to the interest , which a great perplexity of affairs hindered me from thinking of with that attention that I ought , and which I am not immediately able to remit to you , but will pay it ( I think twelve pounds ) in two months ...
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