The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... afterwards in Castle - street , near Cavendish - square . His tragedy being by this time , as he thought , completely finished and fit for the stage , he was very desirous that it should be brought forward . Mr. Peter Garrick told me ...
... afterwards in Castle - street , near Cavendish - square . His tragedy being by this time , as he thought , completely finished and fit for the stage , he was very desirous that it should be brought forward . Mr. Peter Garrick told me ...
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... afterwards more successful in his inquiries than his friend . Though thus elevated into fame , and conscious of uncommon powers , he had not that bustling confidence , or , I may rather say , that animated ambition , which one might ...
... afterwards more successful in his inquiries than his friend . Though thus elevated into fame , and conscious of uncommon powers , he had not that bustling confidence , or , I may rather say , that animated ambition , which one might ...
Pàgina 33
... afterwards pub- lished with some other pieces of his , in Mrs. Williams's Miscel- lanies . This Epitaph is so exquisitely beautiful , that I remember even Lord Kaimes , strangely prejudiced as he was against Dr. Johnson , was compelled ...
... afterwards pub- lished with some other pieces of his , in Mrs. Williams's Miscel- lanies . This Epitaph is so exquisitely beautiful , that I remember even Lord Kaimes , strangely prejudiced as he was against Dr. Johnson , was compelled ...
Pàgina 34
... 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 bookseller , who purchased the library for 13,000 / . , a ...
... 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 bookseller , who purchased the library for 13,000 / . , a ...
Pàgina 39
... afterwards passed the evening at a tavern with him and old Giffard . John- son , who was ever depreciating stage - players , after censuring some mistakes in emphasis , which Garrick had committed in the course of that night's acting ...
... afterwards passed the evening at a tavern with him and old Giffard . John- son , who was ever depreciating stage - players , after censuring some mistakes in emphasis , which Garrick had committed in the course of that night's acting ...
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