Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1893 - 718 páginas |
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... soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be ...
... soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be ...
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... soon done , one Osborn , who was Mr. Warren's printer , was set to work with what was ready , and Johnson engaged to supply the press with copy as it should be wanted ; but his constitutional indolence soon prevailed , and the work was ...
... soon done , one Osborn , who was Mr. Warren's printer , was set to work with what was ready , and Johnson engaged to supply the press with copy as it should be wanted ; but his constitutional indolence soon prevailed , and the work was ...
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... soon come up with me . When she did , I observed her to be in tears . " This , it must be allowed , was a singular beginning of connubial felicity ; but there is no doubt that Johnson , though he thus shewed a manly firmness , proved a ...
... soon come up with me . When she did , I observed her to be in tears . " This , it must be allowed , was a singular beginning of connubial felicity ; but there is no doubt that Johnson , though he thus shewed a manly firmness , proved a ...
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... soon diverted by his decided preference for the stage . This joint expedition of those two eminent men to the metropolis , was many years afterward noticed in an allegorical poem on Shakespeare's Mulberry tree , by Mr. Lovibond , the ...
... soon diverted by his decided preference for the stage . This joint expedition of those two eminent men to the metropolis , was many years afterward noticed in an allegorical poem on Shakespeare's Mulberry tree , by Mr. Lovibond , the ...
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... soon ; for a pleasure I shall always think it , to converse in any manner with an ingenious and candid man ; but having the inclosed poem in my hands to dispose of for the benefit of the author , ( of whose abilities I shall say nothing ...
... soon ; for a pleasure I shall always think it , to converse in any manner with an ingenious and candid man ; but having the inclosed poem in my hands to dispose of for the benefit of the author , ( of whose abilities I shall say nothing ...
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