The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works ... and Various Original Pieces ... Never Before Published ...T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1804 |
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... authour should be obliged to show some sort of evidence , though he would not require a strict legal proof : but Johnson firmly and reso- lutely opposed any restraint whatever , as adverse to a free investigation of the characters of ...
... authour should be obliged to show some sort of evidence , though he would not require a strict legal proof : but Johnson firmly and reso- lutely opposed any restraint whatever , as adverse to a free investigation of the characters of ...
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... authour of a Hudibrastick version of Maphæus's Canto , in addition to the Æneid ; of some poems in Dodsley's collections ; and various other small pieces ; but being a very modest man , never put his name to any thing . He shewed me a ...
... authour of a Hudibrastick version of Maphæus's Canto , in addition to the Æneid ; of some poems in Dodsley's collections ; and various other small pieces ; but being a very modest man , never put his name to any thing . He shewed me a ...
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... authour of the " Dictionary . of ancient Geography , " came in . He mentioned that he had been forty years absent from Scotland , Ah , Boswell ! ( said Johnson , smiling , ) what would you give to be forty years from Scotland ? " I said ...
... authour of the " Dictionary . of ancient Geography , " came in . He mentioned that he had been forty years absent from Scotland , Ah , Boswell ! ( said Johnson , smiling , ) what would you give to be forty years from Scotland ? " I said ...
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... under the title of " Se- lect Works of Abraham Cowley . " Mr. Murphy thought it a bad precedent ; observing , that any au- thour might be used in the same manner ; and that it was pleasing to see the variety of an authour's 28 THE LIFE OF.
... under the title of " Se- lect Works of Abraham Cowley . " Mr. Murphy thought it a bad precedent ; observing , that any au- thour might be used in the same manner ; and that it was pleasing to see the variety of an authour's 28 THE LIFE OF.
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... authour's com- 1776 . positions , at different periods . We talked of Flatman's Poems ; and Mrs. Thrale observed , that Pope had partly borrowed from him , " The dying Christian to his Soul . " Johnson re- peated Rochester's verses upon ...
... authour's com- 1776 . positions , at different periods . We talked of Flatman's Poems ; and Mrs. Thrale observed , that Pope had partly borrowed from him , " The dying Christian to his Soul . " Johnson re- peated Rochester's verses upon ...
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