The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 3Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1878 |
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Pagina 14
... appears to have now become very uninteresting to the public . That Fingal is not from begin- ing to end a translation from the Gaelic , but that some passages have been supplied by the editor to connect the whole , I have heard admitted ...
... appears to have now become very uninteresting to the public . That Fingal is not from begin- ing to end a translation from the Gaelic , but that some passages have been supplied by the editor to connect the whole , I have heard admitted ...
Pagina 20
... appears to me to be well founded , and will account for many of the celebrated deathbed sayings which are recorded . On one of the evenings at my house , when he told me that Lord Lovat boasted to an English nobleman that , though he ...
... appears to me to be well founded , and will account for many of the celebrated deathbed sayings which are recorded . On one of the evenings at my house , when he told me that Lord Lovat boasted to an English nobleman that , though he ...
Pagina 29
... appear in public , more eclat is to be gained , sometimes more money too , by a bon - mot , than a learned speech . It is the fund of natural humour which Lord North possesses , that makes him so much the favourite of the house , and so ...
... appear in public , more eclat is to be gained , sometimes more money too , by a bon - mot , than a learned speech . It is the fund of natural humour which Lord North possesses , that makes him so much the favourite of the house , and so ...
Pagina 34
... appear . 1 Having found , on a revision of the first edition of this work , that , notwithstanding my best care , a few observations had escaped me , which arose from the instant impression , the pub- lication of which might perhaps be ...
... appear . 1 Having found , on a revision of the first edition of this work , that , notwithstanding my best care , a few observations had escaped me , which arose from the instant impression , the pub- lication of which might perhaps be ...
Pagina 36
... appear from his subsequent letters , that he was not less solicitous for intelligence on this subject after his return to London . LETTER 172 . TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " Nov. 27 , 1778 . " DEAR SIR , -I came home last night , without ...
... appear from his subsequent letters , that he was not less solicitous for intelligence on this subject after his return to London . LETTER 172 . TO JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . " Nov. 27 , 1778 . " DEAR SIR , -I came home last night , without ...
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