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Page 242
I am glad to find , by your “ letter of July 26th , your ' style , that you are both in
health ; but wonder “ you should think me ... I have written to you two or “ three
letters concerning it , which I have sent by safe hands , as I told you , “ and doubt
not ...
I am glad to find , by your “ letter of July 26th , your ' style , that you are both in
health ; but wonder “ you should think me ... I have written to you two or “ three
letters concerning it , which I have sent by safe hands , as I told you , “ and doubt
not ...
Page 419
In his Letter to Cibber he says " as to death , I am casy , and dare meet it like a
man - - all that touches me is the concern of my friends , and a reconcilement with
my mother I cannot express the agony I felt when I wrote the Letter to her - - if you
...
In his Letter to Cibber he says " as to death , I am casy , and dare meet it like a
man - - all that touches me is the concern of my friends , and a reconcilement with
my mother I cannot express the agony I felt when I wrote the Letter to her - - if you
...
Page 454
with regard to Lord Tyrconnel , for which he could not but heartily ask his pardon ;
and as he imagined Lord Tyrconnel ' s passion might be yet so high , that he
would not receive a letter from tim , " begged that Sir William would endeavour to
...
with regard to Lord Tyrconnel , for which he could not but heartily ask his pardon ;
and as he imagined Lord Tyrconnel ' s passion might be yet so high , that he
would not receive a letter from tim , " begged that Sir William would endeavour to
...
Page 460
... and therefore , after having been for some time at the officers house , “ at an
immense expence , " as he observes in his letter , he was at length removed to
Newgate , This expence he was enabled to support by the generosity of Mr .
Nash at ...
... and therefore , after having been for some time at the officers house , “ at an
immense expence , " as he observes in his letter , he was at length removed to
Newgate , This expence he was enabled to support by the generosity of Mr .
Nash at ...
Page 553
Of his social qualities , if an estimate be made from his Letters , an opinion too
favourable cannot easily be formed ; they ... a friendly Letter is a calm and
deliberate performance , in the cool of leisure , in the stiliness of solitude , and
surely no ...
Of his social qualities , if an estimate be made from his Letters , an opinion too
favourable cannot easily be formed ; they ... a friendly Letter is a calm and
deliberate performance , in the cool of leisure , in the stiliness of solitude , and
surely no ...
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| Title | Lives Volume 1 of The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | A. Miller, 1800 |
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