The Life of Samuel JohnsonJ. M. Dent, 1907 |
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... language , and which form an introduction to its pages , invigorating and vivifying to a degree . The whole essay , it is need- less to say , though it is a huge improvisation , disproportionate in parts and much distended by Carlyle's ...
... language , and which form an introduction to its pages , invigorating and vivifying to a degree . The whole essay , it is need- less to say , though it is a huge improvisation , disproportionate in parts and much distended by Carlyle's ...
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... Plan for a Dictionary of the English Language , addressed to Lord Chesterfield . Gray's Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College . 1748. Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe , Smollett's Roderick Random , and 2 Chronological Table.
... Plan for a Dictionary of the English Language , addressed to Lord Chesterfield . Gray's Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College . 1748. Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe , Smollett's Roderick Random , and 2 Chronological Table.
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... Language published . 1756. Johnson contributes to the Literary Magazine established this year , and issues Proposals for an edition of Shakspeare . He refuses a living offered to him in Lincolnshire . Burke's Vindication of Natural ...
... Language published . 1756. Johnson contributes to the Literary Magazine established this year , and issues Proposals for an edition of Shakspeare . He refuses a living offered to him in Lincolnshire . Burke's Vindication of Natural ...
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... language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons , the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to ...
... language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons , the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to ...
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... language , ' more tuneable than needs or rhyme or verse to add more harmony . ' " The above little verses also shew that superstitious bias which ' grew with his growth , and strengthened with his strength , ' and , of late years ...
... language , ' more tuneable than needs or rhyme or verse to add more harmony . ' " The above little verses also shew that superstitious bias which ' grew with his growth , and strengthened with his strength , ' and , of late years ...
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