The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 1Cowie, 1825 |
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... called the King's Evil . The Jacobites at that time believed in the efficacy of the royal touch , and accordingly Mrs. Johnson presented her son , when two years old , before Queen Anne , who , for the first time , performed that office ...
... called the King's Evil . The Jacobites at that time believed in the efficacy of the royal touch , and accordingly Mrs. Johnson presented her son , when two years old , before Queen Anne , who , for the first time , performed that office ...
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... called by the natives , ABAVI , the Father of Water . It rises in SACALA , a province of the kingdom of GOIAMA , the most fertile and agreeable part of the Abyssinian dominions . On the eastern side of the country , on the declivity of ...
... called by the natives , ABAVI , the Father of Water . It rises in SACALA , a province of the kingdom of GOIAMA , the most fertile and agreeable part of the Abyssinian dominions . On the eastern side of the country , on the declivity of ...
Page xviii
... called to Johnson's mind the third satire of Juvenal , in which that poet takes leave of a friend , who was withdrawing from all the vices of Rome . Struck with this idea , he wrote that well - known poem , called London . The first ...
... called to Johnson's mind the third satire of Juvenal , in which that poet takes leave of a friend , who was withdrawing from all the vices of Rome . Struck with this idea , he wrote that well - known poem , called London . The first ...
Page xxi
... called " Gustavus Vasa , " by Henry Brooke . Under the mask of irony Johnson published , " A Vindication of the Licenser from the malicious and scandalous Aspersions of Mr. Brooke . " Of these two GENIUS OF DR . JOHNSON . xxi.
... called " Gustavus Vasa , " by Henry Brooke . Under the mask of irony Johnson published , " A Vindication of the Licenser from the malicious and scandalous Aspersions of Mr. Brooke . " Of these two GENIUS OF DR . JOHNSON . xxi.
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... called " The Harleian Miscellany . " The catalogue was completed ; and the Miscellany in 1749 was published in eight quarto volumes . In this business Johnson was a day - labourer for immediate sub- sistence , not unlike Gustavus Vasa ...
... called " The Harleian Miscellany . " The catalogue was completed ; and the Miscellany in 1749 was published in eight quarto volumes . In this business Johnson was a day - labourer for immediate sub- sistence , not unlike Gustavus Vasa ...
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