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... excellent a composition might not be lost to posterity . He delayed from time to time to give it me ( 1 ) ; till at last , in 1781 , when we were on a visit at Mr. Dilly's , at Southhill in Bedfordshire , he was pleased to dictate it to ...
... excellent a composition might not be lost to posterity . He delayed from time to time to give it me ( 1 ) ; till at last , in 1781 , when we were on a visit at Mr. Dilly's , at Southhill in Bedfordshire , he was pleased to dictate it to ...
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... excellent parts , when we were boys together at the college but , alas ! ' Lost in a convent's solitary gloom ! ' . ( 1 ) There is some excuse for Dr. Ratcliff ( so he spelt his name ) not ordering a copy of the book , for this visit ...
... excellent parts , when we were boys together at the college but , alas ! ' Lost in a convent's solitary gloom ! ' . ( 1 ) There is some excuse for Dr. Ratcliff ( so he spelt his name ) not ordering a copy of the book , for this visit ...
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... excellent library , particularly a valuable collection of books in Northern literature , with which Johnson was often very busy . One day Mr. Wise read to us a dissertation which he was pre- paring for the press , intitled " A History ...
... excellent library , particularly a valuable collection of books in Northern literature , with which Johnson was often very busy . One day Mr. Wise read to us a dissertation which he was pre- paring for the press , intitled " A History ...
Pagina 88
... excellent essays were written as hastily as an ordinary letter . Mr. Langton remembers Johnson , when on a visit at Oxford , asking him one evening how long it was till the post went out ; and on being told about half an hour , he ...
... excellent essays were written as hastily as an ordinary letter . Mr. Langton remembers Johnson , when on a visit at Oxford , asking him one evening how long it was till the post went out ; and on being told about half an hour , he ...
Pagina 106
... excellent work , or even referring to them ; because I should not know what to select , or , rather , what to omit . I shall , however , transcribe one , as it shows how well he could state the arguments of those who believe in the ...
... excellent work , or even referring to them ; because I should not know what to select , or , rather , what to omit . I shall , however , transcribe one , as it shows how well he could state the arguments of those who believe in the ...
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