Boswell's Life of JohnsonHumphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 |
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... kind approbation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the Head of a College , as a writer , and as a most amiable man , had known Johnson from his early years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that ...
... kind approbation . Dr. Adams , eminent as the Head of a College , as a writer , and as a most amiable man , had known Johnson from his early years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that ...
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... kind of writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most voluminous of which is one compiled for the booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight 1 , a man , whom ...
... kind of writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most voluminous of which is one compiled for the booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight 1 , a man , whom ...
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... kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are transmitted by tradition . We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance , except by his most pro- minent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and ...
... kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are transmitted by tradition . We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance , except by his most pro- minent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and ...
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... kind , 6 More false , more cruel , than the seas or wind . Toil on , dull croud , in extacies he cries , For wealth or title , perishable prize ; While I those transitory blessings scorn , Secure of praise from ages yet unborn . ' This ...
... kind , 6 More false , more cruel , than the seas or wind . Toil on , dull croud , in extacies he cries , For wealth or title , perishable prize ; While I those transitory blessings scorn , Secure of praise from ages yet unborn . ' This ...
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... kind to the unthankful and to the evil . " In the forlorn state of his circumstances , he accepted of an offer to be employed as usher in the school of Market- Bosworth , in Leicestershire , to which it appears , from one of his little ...
... kind to the unthankful and to the evil . " In the forlorn state of his circumstances , he accepted of an offer to be employed as usher in the school of Market- Bosworth , in Leicestershire , to which it appears , from one of his little ...
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