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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 299
by John Hawkins - 1787 - 605 pages
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Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Esq: With a Collection of His Genuine Bon-mots ...

William Cook - 1805 - 240 pages
...encomiums ; and the L palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures ^k representing him on horseback, with a lance in one hand and a book in the other." Such is the account which Dr. Hawkesworth gives of this extraordinary man ; who was killed, as above...
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The Juvenile Plutarch:: Containing Accounts of the Lives of Celebrated ...

Biography - 1806 - 214 pages
..." ture decorated the chambers and galleries of the Italian nobility, representing him on horseback, with a lance in one hand, and a book in the other. HUGO GROTIUS. FEW names on the roll of learning are entitled to greater reverence than that of the...
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Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of ..., Volume 2

John Black - 1810 - 528 pages
...bed-chambers or galleries of the most of the great men of that nation, representing him on horse-back, with a lance in one hand, and a book in the other : and most of the young ladies likewise, that were any thing handsome, in a memorial of his worth,...
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Works, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other. \ NUMB. 84. SATURDAY, August 25, 1753. Tolle periculum, Jam vaga prosiliet fronts natura remaiis. HOR....
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 11

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 544 pages
...seen in most of the bed-chambers and galleries of the Italian nobiaty, representing him on horseback, with a lance in one hand and a book in the other. From all this wonderful account we can only infer, with any degree of confidence, that Crichton was...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 542 pages
...seen in most of the bed-chambers and galleries of the Italian nobility, representing him on horseback, with a lance in one hand and a book in the other. From all this wonderful account we can only infer, with any degree of confidence, that Crichton was...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other. NUMB. 84. SATURDAY, August 25, 1753. Tolle periculum, Jam taga prosiliet frcenis naiura remotis. Hon....
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The British Nepos; or, Youth's mirror: lives of illustrious Britons

William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...hispicture decorated the chambers and galleries of the Italian nohility, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other. His death, • according to the best accounts, took place in 1582, when he was only twenty-two years...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 390 pages
...their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other, THE ADVENTU11EH. No. St. No. 8k SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1753. -Tolle pericnlum, Jam vaga prosillct frcenis...
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Tickler, Or, Monthly Compendium of Good Things, in Prose and ..., Volumes 1-3

English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback, with a lance in one hand and a book in the other. A MATRIMONIAL THOUGHT. ' IN the blythe days of honey moon, Wilh Kate's amusements smitten, I lorv'd...
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