The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's "Lives of the Poets": With Macaulay's "Life of Johnson".Macmillan and Company, 1898 - 463 strani |
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... Whigs , and the dangers of the Church , that he had become a furious partisan when he could scarcely speak . Before he was three he had insisted on being taken to hear Sacheverell preach at Lichfield Cathedral , and had listened to the ...
... Whigs , and the dangers of the Church , that he had become a furious partisan when he could scarcely speak . Before he was three he had insisted on being taken to hear Sacheverell preach at Lichfield Cathedral , and had listened to the ...
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... Whig dogs should not have the best of it ; and , in fact , every passage which has lived , every passage which bears the marks of his higher faculties , is put into the mouth of some member of the opposition . A few weeks after Johnson ...
... Whig dogs should not have the best of it ; and , in fact , every passage which has lived , every passage which bears the marks of his higher faculties , is put into the mouth of some member of the opposition . A few weeks after Johnson ...
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... Whig party . The excise , which was a favourite resource of Whig financiers , he had designated as a hateful tax . He had railed against the commissioners of excise in language so coarse that they had seriously thought of prosecuting ...
... Whig party . The excise , which was a favourite resource of Whig financiers , he had designated as a hateful tax . He had railed against the commissioners of excise in language so coarse that they had seriously thought of prosecuting ...
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... Whigs utterly desperate , he corresponded at once with the two expectants of the Crown , and kept , as has been observed , the succession undetermined . Not knowing what to do , he did nothing ; and with the fate of a double- dealer ...
... Whigs utterly desperate , he corresponded at once with the two expectants of the Crown , and kept , as has been observed , the succession undetermined . Not knowing what to do , he did nothing ; and with the fate of a double- dealer ...
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... Whigs of merit , and among them Addison and Congreve , were continued in their places . But every man of known influence has so many petitions which he 1 cannot grant , that he must necessarily offend more than 238 [ 1667- SWIFT .
... Whigs of merit , and among them Addison and Congreve , were continued in their places . But every man of known influence has so many petitions which he 1 cannot grant , that he must necessarily offend more than 238 [ 1667- SWIFT .
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