Johnsonian Miscellanies, Volume 2George Birkbeck Norman Hill Harper and Brothers, 1897 |
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... death , timorum maximus ; he thought that the best of us were but unprofitable servants , and had much reason to fear 5 . Johnson thought very well of Lord Kames's Elements of Criticism ; of other of his writings he thought very ...
... death , timorum maximus ; he thought that the best of us were but unprofitable servants , and had much reason to fear 5 . Johnson thought very well of Lord Kames's Elements of Criticism ; of other of his writings he thought very ...
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... death by two ladies who talked ' Obscenity and impiety ( he said ) have always been repressed in my company . ' Life , iv . 295. See also ib . iii . 189 . Susan Burney , sending her sister a report of a conversation at Streat- ham when ...
... death by two ladies who talked ' Obscenity and impiety ( he said ) have always been repressed in my company . ' Life , iv . 295. See also ib . iii . 189 . Susan Burney , sending her sister a report of a conversation at Streat- ham when ...
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... death , and then accompanied him to his grave as one of his pall- bearers . He and Mrs. Garrick ( I think it was in 1777 ) have been with us in the country ; Gibbon and Reynolds at the same time , all three delightful in society . The ...
... death , and then accompanied him to his grave as one of his pall- bearers . He and Mrs. Garrick ( I think it was in 1777 ) have been with us in the country ; Gibbon and Reynolds at the same time , all three delightful in society . The ...
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... death , which is yet to be written , I Perhaps gamble , a word not in Johnson's Dictionary ( where gam- bler , though given , is called ' a cant word ' ) , was in common use , and Reynolds was singular in sticking to an old - fashioned ...
... death , which is yet to be written , I Perhaps gamble , a word not in Johnson's Dictionary ( where gam- bler , though given , is called ' a cant word ' ) , was in common use , and Reynolds was singular in sticking to an old - fashioned ...
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... death ; as to which I shall be concise , though solemn ; also many letters . Pray how shall I wind up ? Shall I give the character in my Tour , somewhat enlarged 1 ? London , Feb. 25. 1791. I have not seen Sir Joshua I think for a ...
... death ; as to which I shall be concise , though solemn ; also many letters . Pray how shall I wind up ? Shall I give the character in my Tour , somewhat enlarged 1 ? London , Feb. 25. 1791. I have not seen Sir Joshua I think for a ...
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