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... early reading he had nowhere found more bark and steel for the mind ' than in The Rambler ; in his early meetings with Johnson his culminating pride was in the fact that he had spent an evening not with the great clubman , not with the ...
... early reading he had nowhere found more bark and steel for the mind ' than in The Rambler ; in his early meetings with Johnson his culminating pride was in the fact that he had spent an evening not with the great clubman , not with the ...
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... early as 1749 he founded the Ivy Lane Club , where he would pass those hours in a free and unrestrained interchange of sentiments , which otherwise had been spent at home in painful reflec- tion ' . It was not a purely literary ...
... early as 1749 he founded the Ivy Lane Club , where he would pass those hours in a free and unrestrained interchange of sentiments , which otherwise had been spent at home in painful reflec- tion ' . It was not a purely literary ...
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... early life . ] BI - CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON , Edited by J. T. Raby ( 1909 ) . SIX ESSAYS ON JOHNSON , by Sir W. Raleigh . Oxford ( 1910 ) . [ An important re - statement , correcting Macaulay's views . ] DR ...
... early life . ] BI - CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON , Edited by J. T. Raby ( 1909 ) . SIX ESSAYS ON JOHNSON , by Sir W. Raleigh . Oxford ( 1910 ) . [ An important re - statement , correcting Macaulay's views . ] DR ...
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