The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of a Tour to the HebridesJohn Murray, Albermarle-Street, 1831 |
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Pagina viii
... lived their day , and are hardly to be heard of except in these volumes . Yet these volumes must be read with im- perfect pleasure , without some knowledge of the history of those more than half forgotten persons . Facts , too , fade ...
... lived their day , and are hardly to be heard of except in these volumes . Yet these volumes must be read with im- perfect pleasure , without some knowledge of the history of those more than half forgotten persons . Facts , too , fade ...
Pagina x
... lived very much in the society of Johnson's latter days . " Rydal Mount , 12th Sept. 1826 . " Sir Joshua Reynolds told me at his table , immediately after the publication of this book , that every word of it might be depended upon as if ...
... lived very much in the society of Johnson's latter days . " Rydal Mount , 12th Sept. 1826 . " Sir Joshua Reynolds told me at his table , immediately after the publication of this book , that every word of it might be depended upon as if ...
Pagina xxxiii
... of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a dedi- VOL . I. cation , when I mention that there has been a DEDICATION. ...
... of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a dedi- VOL . I. cation , when I mention that there has been a DEDICATION. ...
Pagina xl
... lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , which he contributed to improve , could be finished , the world has been deprived of that most valuable man ; a loss of which the ...
... lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , which he contributed to improve , could be finished , the world has been deprived of that most valuable man ; a loss of which the ...
Pagina xlviii
... lived together with com- panionable ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the finer and less obvious parts of Johnson's 1 The greatest part of this book was written while Sir ...
... lived together with com- panionable ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the finer and less obvious parts of Johnson's 1 The greatest part of this book was written while Sir ...
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