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The Life of Samuel Johnson - Page 83
by James Boswell - 1873 - 576 pages
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...very eloquent Preface, Johnson's mind appears to have been in such a state of depression1, that we cannot contemplate without wonder the vigorous and...Warton" ; and however he may have been affected for class of men who 'employed their minds in such operations as required neither celerity nor strength,...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...very eloquent Preface, Johnson's mind appears to have been in such a state of depression', that we cannot contemplate without wonder the vigorous and...Warton' ; and however he may have been affected for class of men who 'employed their minds in such operations as required neither celerity nor strength,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...upon their work, were obliged to change its ceconomy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...little to fear or hope from censure Or from praise. PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATIC WORKS •> WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756. VV HEN...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...upon their work, were obliged to change its ceconomy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." More than half a. century has now elapsed since the publication of this great work, which, notwithstanding...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...upon their work, were obliged to change its (economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or froia praise." More than half a. century has now elapsed since the publication of this great work,...
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Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wilied to please have sunk into the grave, and success and...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." More than half a century has now elapsed since the publication of this great work, which, notwithstanding...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His Works

Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...Rochester. edition another form ; I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection ; & hich if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, * what...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." As though he had foreseen some of the circumstances which would attend this publication, he observes,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...upon their work, were obliged to change its oeconomy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. F2 PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE • DRAMATICK WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Printed in the Year 1756....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me ? I have protracted my work till most of those whom J wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING THE DRAMATICK WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Year 1756. WHEN the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...upon their work, were obliged to change its ceconomy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. PROPOSALS FOR MINTING THE DRAMATIC WORKS or WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Printed in the Ytar 1756. W HEN the...
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