Life of Johnson, Volumen1H. Frowde, 1904 |
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... thought worthy of particular attention by a person 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 Dedication , when I ...
... thought worthy of particular attention by a person 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 Dedication , when I ...
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... thought ridiculously ostentatious . Let me only observe , as a specimen of my trouble , that I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew would ...
... thought ridiculously ostentatious . Let me only observe , as a specimen of my trouble , that I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew would ...
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... thought . Long since I learn'd to slight this fleeting breath , And view with cheerful eyes approaching death The inexorable sisters have decreed That Priam's house , and Priam's self shall bleed : The day will come , in which proud ...
... thought . Long since I learn'd to slight this fleeting breath , And view with cheerful eyes approaching death The inexorable sisters have decreed That Priam's house , and Priam's self shall bleed : The day will come , in which proud ...
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... his return from Stourbridge , he passed in what he thought idleness , and was scolded by his father for his want of steady applica- tion . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward at 40 HIS WIDE READING [ 1728 all , but merely.
... his return from Stourbridge , he passed in what he thought idleness , and was scolded by his father for his want of steady applica- tion . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward at 40 HIS WIDE READING [ 1728 all , but merely.
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... thought that he did himself injustice in his account of what he had read , and that he must have been speaking with reference to the vast portion of study which is possible , and to which a few scholars in the whole history of litera ...
... thought that he did himself injustice in his account of what he had read , and that he must have been speaking with reference to the vast portion of study which is possible , and to which a few scholars in the whole history of litera ...
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