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... appeared in 1791 . It has been Mr. Roberts's purpose to show Johnson in his grandeur independently of Boswell . This ... appearance , but I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing Cross . ' It is partly this insistence on ...
... appeared in 1791 . It has been Mr. Roberts's purpose to show Johnson in his grandeur independently of Boswell . This ... appearance , but I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing Cross . ' It is partly this insistence on ...
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... to be of no advantage to the common workman . The two massive folios which appeared in 1755 may well have seemed a formidable tool to be used by the common workman of literature . But in lexicography Johnson was a 18 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... to be of no advantage to the common workman . The two massive folios which appeared in 1755 may well have seemed a formidable tool to be used by the common workman of literature . But in lexicography Johnson was a 18 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
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... appeared to be attainable only in Colleges . Gray's plea , made from college rooms , that he could write only when he was in the right mood Johnson dismissed as ' fantastick foppery ' . The Rambler had produced his paper twice a week ...
... appeared to be attainable only in Colleges . Gray's plea , made from college rooms , that he could write only when he was in the right mood Johnson dismissed as ' fantastick foppery ' . The Rambler had produced his paper twice a week ...
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