Johnsonian Miscellanies, Volume 2George Birkbeck Norman Hill Harper and Brothers, 1897 |
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... believe he had been there ; but that he had afterwards altered his opinion 3 . He was much pleased with Dr. Jortin's Sermons , the language of which he thought very elegant ; but thought his life of Erasmus a dull book . He was very ...
... believe he had been there ; but that he had afterwards altered his opinion 3 . He was much pleased with Dr. Jortin's Sermons , the language of which he thought very elegant ; but thought his life of Erasmus a dull book . He was very ...
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... believe , fifty years ago . He did not puzzle me ; he opened my views into life very much . ' Life , iii . 292 . See also Hawkins's Johnson , p . 263 . 3 Neither derange nor disarrange is in Johnson's Dictionary . Of de- range he might ...
... believe , fifty years ago . He did not puzzle me ; he opened my views into life very much . ' Life , iii . 292 . See also Hawkins's Johnson , p . 263 . 3 Neither derange nor disarrange is in Johnson's Dictionary . Of de- range he might ...
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... believe me , I delighted to hear , and took care to write down soon after . ' I have read his History of the Stage , which is a very capital piece of criticism and anti - agrarianism 2. I shall now read all Shakspeare through , in a ...
... believe me , I delighted to hear , and took care to write down soon after . ' I have read his History of the Stage , which is a very capital piece of criticism and anti - agrarianism 2. I shall now read all Shakspeare through , in a ...
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... believe , was put into the no side by Fordyce by mistake . You may guess who put in the other two . The Bishop of Carlisle and Dr. Blagden are put up 3 . I doubt if the latter will be admitted , till Burgoyne gets in first . My work has ...
... believe , was put into the no side by Fordyce by mistake . You may guess who put in the other two . The Bishop of Carlisle and Dr. Blagden are put up 3 . I doubt if the latter will be admitted , till Burgoyne gets in first . My work has ...
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... believe , a very heavy disadvantage . I own it was imprudent in me to make a clear purchase at a time I was sadly straitened ; but if I had missed the opportunity , it never again would have occurred , and I should have been vexed to ...
... believe , a very heavy disadvantage . I own it was imprudent in me to make a clear purchase at a time I was sadly straitened ; but if I had missed the opportunity , it never again would have occurred , and I should have been vexed to ...
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