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... letter . I am , dear , dear mother Your dutiful son , SAM . JOHNSON . Two days later , and another letter : DEAR HONOURED MOTHER , you I fear you are too ill for long letters ; therefore I will only tell you , that you have from me all ...
... letter . I am , dear , dear mother Your dutiful son , SAM . JOHNSON . Two days later , and another letter : DEAR HONOURED MOTHER , you I fear you are too ill for long letters ; therefore I will only tell you , that you have from me all ...
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... letter is to Miss Porter , three days later - the day of the funeral and Johnson expresses his grief as follows ... letter of all from Johnson's correspondence in this period is the letter to his printer concern- ing Rasselas : ' When I ...
... letter is to Miss Porter , three days later - the day of the funeral and Johnson expresses his grief as follows ... letter of all from Johnson's correspondence in this period is the letter to his printer concern- ing Rasselas : ' When I ...
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... letter , though , is not the businesslike tone ( there is after all , no total contradiction between grieving and making money ) , but the date of the letter . The letter is dated 20 January , the same day on which he wrote so ...
... letter , though , is not the businesslike tone ( there is after all , no total contradiction between grieving and making money ) , but the date of the letter . The letter is dated 20 January , the same day on which he wrote so ...
Contents
surly virtue and pleasing dream | 4 |
The Vanity of Human Wishes | 42 |
those that aspire to the name | 57 |
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