The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... affection for Topham Beauclerk was so great , that when Beauclerk was labouring under that severe illness which at last occasioned his death , Johnson said , ( with a voice faltering with emotion , ) Sir , I would walk to the extent of ...
... affection for Topham Beauclerk was so great , that when Beauclerk was labouring under that severe illness which at last occasioned his death , Johnson said , ( with a voice faltering with emotion , ) Sir , I would walk to the extent of ...
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... affection . Yet , with all the ardour of sympathetick genius , Johnson has done that spon- taneously and ably , which , by some writers , had been before attempted injudi- ciously , and which , by others , from whom more successful ...
... affection . Yet , with all the ardour of sympathetick genius , Johnson has done that spon- taneously and ably , which , by some writers , had been before attempted injudi- ciously , and which , by others , from whom more successful ...
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... affections Johuson and lord Lyttelton were rival candidates . See Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes , p . 160. After mentioning the death of Mrs. Fitz- herbert , ( who was a daughter of Mr. Meynell , of Bradley in Derbyshire , ) and Johnson's ...
... affections Johuson and lord Lyttelton were rival candidates . See Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes , p . 160. After mentioning the death of Mrs. Fitz- herbert , ( who was a daughter of Mr. Meynell , of Bradley in Derbyshire , ) and Johnson's ...
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... affection for her induced him to preserve and bind up in a volume thirty - three of her letters , which were purchased from the widow of his servant Francis Barber , and published by R. Phillips in 1805 . But highly as he valued this ...
... affection for her induced him to preserve and bind up in a volume thirty - three of her letters , which were purchased from the widow of his servant Francis Barber , and published by R. Phillips in 1805 . But highly as he valued this ...
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... affectionate attachment visibly and certainly decaying into dissolution , must be of a hard and obstinate frame . To all the other excellencies of Night Thoughts , let me add the great and peculiar one , that they contain not only the ...
... affectionate attachment visibly and certainly decaying into dissolution , must be of a hard and obstinate frame . To all the other excellencies of Night Thoughts , let me add the great and peculiar one , that they contain not only the ...
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