The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1J. Murray, 1839 |
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Pagina xiv
... kind of reputation he attained neither liked to hear of his connexion even with Paoli or Johnson ; and both would have been better pleased if he had contented himself with a domestic life of sober respectability . : " The public ...
... kind of reputation he attained neither liked to hear of his connexion even with Paoli or Johnson ; and both would have been better pleased if he had contented himself with a domestic life of sober respectability . : " The public ...
Pagina xix
... kind ; nor can the world speedily hope to receive a similar gift ; for it is scarcely more practicable to find another Bos- well than another Johnson . " No. xlvi . 1820 . 1 1 " Boswell's Life of Johnson is , we suspect , the richest ...
... kind ; nor can the world speedily hope to receive a similar gift ; for it is scarcely more practicable to find another Bos- well than another Johnson . " No. xlvi . 1820 . 1 1 " Boswell's Life of Johnson is , we suspect , the richest ...
Pagina 10
... kind approbation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the Head of a College , as a writer , and as a ( 1 ) Dr. Thomas Warton , the historian of English poetry , died May 21. 1790 , aged 63. Dr. Adams died Jan. 13. 1789 , aged 82. ] - most amiable ...
... kind approbation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the Head of a College , as a writer , and as a ( 1 ) Dr. Thomas Warton , the historian of English poetry , died May 21. 1790 , aged 63. Dr. Adams died Jan. 13. 1789 , aged 82. ] - most amiable ...
Pagina 19
... kind of writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most voluminous of which is one compiled for the booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight ( 1 ) , a man whom ...
... kind of writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most voluminous of which is one compiled for the booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight ( 1 ) , a man whom ...
Pagina 26
... kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can portray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observ- able particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ...
... kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can portray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observ- able particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ...
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