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Davy Garrick is to be with you early the next week , and Mr . Johnfon , to try his
fate with a tragedy , and to see to get himself employed in some translation ,
either from the Latin or the French . Johnson is a very good scholar and poet ,
and .
Davy Garrick is to be with you early the next week , and Mr . Johnfon , to try his
fate with a tragedy , and to see to get himself employed in some translation ,
either from the Latin or the French . Johnson is a very good scholar and poet ,
and .
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When Johnson shone in the plenitude of his political glory , from the celebrity of
his ministerial pamphlets , an attempt was made to bring him into the House of
Ccmmons , by Mr . Strahan , the king ' s printer , who was himself in parliament ...
When Johnson shone in the plenitude of his political glory , from the celebrity of
his ministerial pamphlets , an attempt was made to bring him into the House of
Ccmmons , by Mr . Strahan , the king ' s printer , who was himself in parliament ...
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Though usually grave , and even awful in his deportment , he posleffed
uncommon and peculiar powers of wit and humour : he frequently indulged
himself in colloquial pleasantry ; and the heartiest merriment was often enjoyed
in his company ...
Though usually grave , and even awful in his deportment , he posleffed
uncommon and peculiar powers of wit and humour : he frequently indulged
himself in colloquial pleasantry ; and the heartiest merriment was often enjoyed
in his company ...
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To the clofe of life he was not only occupied in forming schemes of religious
reformation ; but , even to a very late . period of it , he seems to have been
solicitous to apply himself to study with renewed diligence and vigour . It is
remarkable , that ...
To the clofe of life he was not only occupied in forming schemes of religious
reformation ; but , even to a very late . period of it , he seems to have been
solicitous to apply himself to study with renewed diligence and vigour . It is
remarkable , that ...
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V1 11101 Lofty ; he seems to use Dryden ' s phrafe , to be o ' er inform ' d with
meaning , and his words do not appear to himself adequate to his conception .
He moves in state , and his periods are always harmonious . His Oriental Tales
are ...
V1 11101 Lofty ; he seems to use Dryden ' s phrafe , to be o ' er inform ' d with
meaning , and his words do not appear to himself adequate to his conception .
He moves in state , and his periods are always harmonious . His Oriental Tales
are ...
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