The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Том 1Bell, 1889 |
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... Epigram on the Dictionary tionary He contributes to the Universal Visitor His defence of Tea He pleads the cause of Admiral Byng . Proposes a new edition of Shakespeare . Dr. Burney's description of a visit to Johnson Johnson commences ...
... Epigram on the Dictionary tionary He contributes to the Universal Visitor His defence of Tea He pleads the cause of Admiral Byng . Proposes a new edition of Shakespeare . Dr. Burney's description of a visit to Johnson Johnson commences ...
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... Epigram ; that the study of which he was the most fond was metaphysics , but he had not read much , even in that way . I always thought that he did himself injustice in his account of what he had read , and that he must have been ...
... Epigram ; that the study of which he was the most fond was metaphysics , but he had not read much , even in that way . I always thought that he did himself injustice in his account of what he had read , and that he must have been ...
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... epigrams usually have . It may be surmised that the college beer was at this time indifferent : - " Mea nec Falernæ Temperant vites , nequé Formiani Pocula colles . " - Hor . Od . 1 , 20 , 10 . " Quid mirum Maro quod dignè canit arma ...
... epigrams usually have . It may be surmised that the college beer was at this time indifferent : - " Mea nec Falernæ Temperant vites , nequé Formiani Pocula colles . " - Hor . Od . 1 , 20 , 10 . " Quid mirum Maro quod dignè canit arma ...
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... epigram . - Croker . 1 Certainly , not all ; and those which we have are not all marked as presented by him . - Hall . 2 See Nash's History of Worcestershire , vol . i . , p . 529 . defects of his own college : and I have , ÆT . 20 . 43 ...
... epigram . - Croker . 1 Certainly , not all ; and those which we have are not all marked as presented by him . - Hall . 2 See Nash's History of Worcestershire , vol . i . , p . 529 . defects of his own college : and I have , ÆT . 20 . 43 ...
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... Epigram ; that the study of which he was the most fond was metaphysics , but he had not read much , even in that way . I always thought that he did himself injustice in his account of what he had read , and that he must have been ...
... Epigram ; that the study of which he was the most fond was metaphysics , but he had not read much , even in that way . I always thought that he did himself injustice in his account of what he had read , and that he must have been ...
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