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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... write " The Lives of the English Poets , " - Edward Dilly - Correspon- dence Charles O'Connor - Dr . Zachary Pearce's Posthumous Works -- Prologue to Hugh Kelly's " Word to the Wise , " 877 CHAPTER XIV . 1777 . Richard Brinsley Sheridan ...
... write " The Lives of the English Poets , " - Edward Dilly - Correspon- dence Charles O'Connor - Dr . Zachary Pearce's Posthumous Works -- Prologue to Hugh Kelly's " Word to the Wise , " 877 CHAPTER XIV . 1777 . Richard Brinsley Sheridan ...
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... write enough in that style if once you begin . " 2 One gentleman in company expressing his opinion “ that Fingal was certainly genuine , for that he had heard a great part of it repeated in the original , " Dr. Johnson indignantly asked ...
... write enough in that style if once you begin . " 2 One gentleman in company expressing his opinion “ that Fingal was certainly genuine , for that he had heard a great part of it repeated in the original , " Dr. Johnson indignantly asked ...
Pagina 14
... write an epic poem on the story of Robin Hood ; and half England , to whom the names and places he should mention in it are familiar , would believe and declare they had heard it from their earliest years . " One of his objections to ...
... write an epic poem on the story of Robin Hood ; and half England , to whom the names and places he should mention in it are familiar , would believe and declare they had heard it from their earliest years . " One of his objections to ...
Pagina 17
... writing down what he heard , or , which is as good , preserved it in his memory ; for he has a wonderful memory . " With the leave , however , of this elegant historian , no man's memory can preserve facts or sayings with such fidelity ...
... writing down what he heard , or , which is as good , preserved it in his memory ; for he has a wonderful memory . " With the leave , however , of this elegant historian , no man's memory can preserve facts or sayings with such fidelity ...
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... write , and to practise arithmetic , by a gentleman whose name is Braidwood . It was pleasing to see one of the most desperate of human calamities capable of so much help : whatever - enlarges hope will exalt courage ; after having seen ...
... write , and to practise arithmetic , by a gentleman whose name is Braidwood . It was pleasing to see one of the most desperate of human calamities capable of so much help : whatever - enlarges hope will exalt courage ; after having seen ...
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