The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Količina 5G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
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... writing - Edinburgh sur- veyed - Character of Swift's works - Evil spirits and witchcraft - Lord Monboddo and the Ouran Outang . 17. Poetry and Dictionary - writing - Scepticism - Eternal necessity refuted - Lord Hailes criticism on The ...
... writing - Edinburgh sur- veyed - Character of Swift's works - Evil spirits and witchcraft - Lord Monboddo and the Ouran Outang . 17. Poetry and Dictionary - writing - Scepticism - Eternal necessity refuted - Lord Hailes criticism on The ...
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... write to me what I know you think , that I may read it to the mighty sage , with proper emphasis , before I leave London , which I must do soon . He talks of you with the same warmth that he did last year . We are to see as much of ...
... write to me what I know you think , that I may read it to the mighty sage , with proper emphasis , before I leave London , which I must do soon . He talks of you with the same warmth that he did last year . We are to see as much of ...
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... writing it . He was conscious of his superiority . He loved praise when it was brought to him ; but was too proud to seek for it . He was somewhat susceptible of flattery . His mind was so full of imagery , that he might have been per ...
... writing it . He was conscious of his superiority . He loved praise when it was brought to him ; but was too proud to seek for it . He was somewhat susceptible of flattery . His mind was so full of imagery , that he might have been per ...
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... were accomplished gentlemen , and elegant scholars .-- Walter Scott . 3 P. 6 , first ed . , 1775 . but 1 ng and Fif thes UNIST Sar onours a 16 [ 1778 . JOURNAL OF A TOUR Ogden on Prayer-Aphoristic writing-Edinburgh sur-
... were accomplished gentlemen , and elegant scholars .-- Walter Scott . 3 P. 6 , first ed . , 1775 . but 1 ng and Fif thes UNIST Sar onours a 16 [ 1778 . JOURNAL OF A TOUR Ogden on Prayer-Aphoristic writing-Edinburgh sur-
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... write his is gr mpress It may be supposed that it was somewhat like what Mrs. Piozzi re- lates that he said of an ... writer be so forgetful of human comfort , as to give any countenance to that dreary infidelity which would " make us ...
... write his is gr mpress It may be supposed that it was somewhat like what Mrs. Piozzi re- lates that he said of an ... writer be so forgetful of human comfort , as to give any countenance to that dreary infidelity which would " make us ...
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