The Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volum 3G. Bell, 1884 |
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... wrote down as having passed between Dr. Johnson and her at this interview . As I had not the least recollection of it , and did not find the smallest trace of it in my " record " taken at the time , I could not , in con- sistency with ...
... wrote down as having passed between Dr. Johnson and her at this interview . As I had not the least recollection of it , and did not find the smallest trace of it in my " record " taken at the time , I could not , in con- sistency with ...
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... wrote , or , perhaps , I should rather say compiled , two Dialogues , in illustration of this position , in the first of which Johnson attacks Garrick in opposition to Sir Joshua , and in the other defends him against Gibbon . They are ...
... wrote , or , perhaps , I should rather say compiled , two Dialogues , in illustration of this position , in the first of which Johnson attacks Garrick in opposition to Sir Joshua , and in the other defends him against Gibbon . They are ...
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... wrote them . I am vexed at being shown verses in that manner . " MISS REYNOLDS . " But if they should be good , why not give them hearty praise ? " JOHN- SON . " Why , Madam , because I have not then got the better of my bad humour from ...
... wrote them . I am vexed at being shown verses in that manner . " MISS REYNOLDS . " But if they should be good , why not give them hearty praise ? " JOHN- SON . " Why , Madam , because I have not then got the better of my bad humour from ...
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... wrote the above , besides repeated editions in the general collection of his works during the last twenty years . — Malone , 1804 . * In the phraseology of Scotland , I should have said , " Mr. John Spottis- woode , the younger , of ...
... wrote the above , besides repeated editions in the general collection of his works during the last twenty years . — Malone , 1804 . * In the phraseology of Scotland , I should have said , " Mr. John Spottis- woode , the younger , of ...
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... wrote . JOHNSON . " I recollect but one passage quoted by Thucydides from Homer , which is not to be found in our copies of Homer's works ; I am for the antiquity of Homer , and think that a Grecian colony , by being nearer Persia ...
... wrote . JOHNSON . " I recollect but one passage quoted by Thucydides from Homer , which is not to be found in our copies of Homer's works ; I am for the antiquity of Homer , and think that a Grecian colony , by being nearer Persia ...
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