Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1927 |
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... lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long and uninterrupted friendship between us . If gratitude should be ...
... lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long and uninterrupted friendship between us . If gratitude should be ...
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... lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , 1 See Mr. Malone's Preface to his edition of Shakspeare . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION 7 which he contributed to ...
... lived to peruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , 1 See Mr. Malone's Preface to his edition of Shakspeare . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION 7 which he contributed to ...
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... lived together with companion- able 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 character . His being appointed one of his executors ...
... lived together with companion- able 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 character . His being appointed one of his executors ...
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... lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value of my ...
... lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value of my ...
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... lived . And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his Life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be sup- posed to be entirely perfect . To be as he was ...
... lived . And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his Life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be sup- posed to be entirely perfect . To be as he was ...
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