The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1846 |
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Pagina 3
... mentioned this story to George Lord Lyttelton , who told me he was very intimate with Lord Chesterfield ; and , holding it as a well- known truth , defended Lord Chesterfield by saying , that " Cibber , who had been introduced ...
... mentioned this story to George Lord Lyttelton , who told me he was very intimate with Lord Chesterfield ; and , holding it as a well- known truth , defended Lord Chesterfield by saying , that " Cibber , who had been introduced ...
Pagina 8
... mention of it could not properly find a place in a letter of the kind that this was . " - B . This surely is an unsatisfactory excuse ; for the sum , though now so inconsiderable , was one which , many years before , Johnson tells us ...
... mention of it could not properly find a place in a letter of the kind that this was . " - B . This surely is an unsatisfactory excuse ; for the sum , though now so inconsiderable , was one which , many years before , Johnson tells us ...
Pagina 18
... mentioned in the text , who had long been his servant : a bequest which Johnson himself imitated in favour of his own servant , Barber . - - C. " I remember , at the classical lecture in the 18 1754 LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... mentioned in the text , who had long been his servant : a bequest which Johnson himself imitated in favour of his own servant , Barber . - - C. " I remember , at the classical lecture in the 18 1754 LIFE OF JOHNSON .
Pagina 33
... mentioned by Mr. Gibbon in a tone very different from Dr. Johnson's . " This humble though useful labour , which had once been dignified by the genius of Bayle and the learning of Le Clerc , was not disgraced by the taste , the know ...
... mentioned by Mr. Gibbon in a tone very different from Dr. Johnson's . " This humble though useful labour , which had once been dignified by the genius of Bayle and the learning of Le Clerc , was not disgraced by the taste , the know ...
Pagina 38
... mention a stronger attraction , why not to dear Mr. Langton ? I will give the true reason , which I know you will approve : -I have a mother more than eighty years old , who has counted the days to the publication of my book , in hopes ...
... mention a stronger attraction , why not to dear Mr. Langton ? I will give the true reason , which I know you will approve : -I have a mother more than eighty years old , who has counted the days to the publication of my book , in hopes ...
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