The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. To which are Added, Volum 10J. Murray, 1835 |
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... write his life ; I laid by sixty or seventy books for the purpose of writing it in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself . I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto ; and if I had filled three pages , the rest ...
... write his life ; I laid by sixty or seventy books for the purpose of writing it in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself . I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto ; and if I had filled three pages , the rest ...
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... writer occurs at the moment to my memory , and as I have not seen it noticed in any book , you will excuse me for producing it : Gray , " says Johnson , " in his odes , has a kind of strutting dignity , and is tall by walking on tiptoe ...
... writer occurs at the moment to my memory , and as I have not seen it noticed in any book , you will excuse me for producing it : Gray , " says Johnson , " in his odes , has a kind of strutting dignity , and is tall by walking on tiptoe ...
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... writer , they might be managed with success by such a biographer as Johnson deserves , and perhaps has hitherto not had . 512. English Universities . There are men to whom such an opponent as Dr. Johnson , upon such a topic as the ...
... writer , they might be managed with success by such a biographer as Johnson deserves , and perhaps has hitherto not had . 512. English Universities . There are men to whom such an opponent as Dr. Johnson , upon such a topic as the ...
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... writer , in whom religion and learning have lost one of their brightest ornaments , and whom it is not an act of adulation or presumption to represent as summoned to that reward , which the noblest talents , exercised uniformly for the ...
... writer , in whom religion and learning have lost one of their brightest ornaments , and whom it is not an act of adulation or presumption to represent as summoned to that reward , which the noblest talents , exercised uniformly for the ...
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... write it . " 99 519. Johnson's Monument . : - " I When it was determined to erect a monument of Johnson in St ... writing to a friend , he thus expresses himself : must leave this mighty task to some hardier and some abler hand . The ...
... write it . " 99 519. Johnson's Monument . : - " I When it was determined to erect a monument of Johnson in St ... writing to a friend , he thus expresses himself : must leave this mighty task to some hardier and some abler hand . The ...
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