The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 1Cowie, 1825 |
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Page viii
... read it through ? " If the answer was in the affirmative , he did not seem will- ing to believe it . He continued at the university till the want of pecuniary supplies obliged him to quit the place vi AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND.
... read it through ? " If the answer was in the affirmative , he did not seem will- ing to believe it . He continued at the university till the want of pecuniary supplies obliged him to quit the place vi AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND.
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... continued it from that time to the debate on spirituous liquors , which happened in the House of Lords in Feb. 1742-3 . The eloquence , the force of argument , and the splendour of language , displayed in the several speeches , are well ...
... continued it from that time to the debate on spirituous liquors , which happened in the House of Lords in Feb. 1742-3 . The eloquence , the force of argument , and the splendour of language , displayed in the several speeches , are well ...
Page xxiv
... continued by Johnson till the month of March 1742-3 . From that time the Magazine was conducted by Dr. Hawkesworth . In 1743-4 , Osborne , the bookseller , who kept a shop in Gray's Inn , purchased the earl of Oxford's library , at the ...
... continued by Johnson till the month of March 1742-3 . From that time the Magazine was conducted by Dr. Hawkesworth . In 1743-4 , Osborne , the bookseller , who kept a shop in Gray's Inn , purchased the earl of Oxford's library , at the ...
Page xxxi
... continued regularly every Tuesday and Saturday for the space of two years , when it was finally closed on Sa- turday , March 14 , 1752. As it began with motives of piety , so it appears that the same religious spirit glowed with ...
... continued regularly every Tuesday and Saturday for the space of two years , when it was finally closed on Sa- turday , March 14 , 1752. As it began with motives of piety , so it appears that the same religious spirit glowed with ...
Page lvi
... continued meditation , and write their productions only , when , in their opinion , they have completed them . This last was Johnson's method . He never took his pen in hand till he had well weighed his subject , and grasped in his mind ...
... continued meditation , and write their productions only , when , in their opinion , they have completed them . This last was Johnson's method . He never took his pen in hand till he had well weighed his subject , and grasped in his mind ...
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