The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 páginas |
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... kind reception in the best families at Litchfield , and he was particularly distinguished by Mr. Walmsley , Register of the ecclesiastical court , a man of great worth and of very extensive and various erudition . That gen- tleman ...
... kind reception in the best families at Litchfield , and he was particularly distinguished by Mr. Walmsley , Register of the ecclesiastical court , a man of great worth and of very extensive and various erudition . That gen- tleman ...
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... which he sold sermons to such clergymen as either would not or could not compose their own discourses ; and of sermon - writing he seems to have made a kind of trade . Though he had exhausted , during the time that he OF DR . JOHNSON . 11.
... which he sold sermons to such clergymen as either would not or could not compose their own discourses ; and of sermon - writing he seems to have made a kind of trade . Though he had exhausted , during the time that he OF DR . JOHNSON . 11.
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... kind ever seen ; the one a petition from himself to the King , the other a like address from his wife to the Queen . These petitions failed of success . The principal booksellers in London having determined to publish a body of English ...
... kind ever seen ; the one a petition from himself to the King , the other a like address from his wife to the Queen . These petitions failed of success . The principal booksellers in London having determined to publish a body of English ...
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... kind resembling the dis- temper called St. Vitus's dance ; and he had the seeds of so many diseases sown in his constitution that a short time before his death he declared that he hardly remembered to have passed one day wholly free ...
... kind resembling the dis- temper called St. Vitus's dance ; and he had the seeds of so many diseases sown in his constitution that a short time before his death he declared that he hardly remembered to have passed one day wholly free ...
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... kind was abashed in his presence - The same energy which was displayed in his literary productions was exhibited also in his conversation , which was various , striking , and instructive : like the sage in Rasselas , he spoke , and ...
... kind was abashed in his presence - The same energy which was displayed in his literary productions was exhibited also in his conversation , which was various , striking , and instructive : like the sage in Rasselas , he spoke , and ...
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