The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous: to which are Now Added Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies; Also His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor DoddJ. Kay, 1828 - 292 páginas |
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... Rambler on the subject of Procrastination was hastily composed , as I have heard , in Sir Joshua Reynolds's parlour , while the boy waited to carry it to the press : and numberless are the instances of his writing under immediate ...
... Rambler on the subject of Procrastination was hastily composed , as I have heard , in Sir Joshua Reynolds's parlour , while the boy waited to carry it to the press : and numberless are the instances of his writing under immediate ...
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... Rambler , Labour and Rest was his favourite ; but Serotinus , the man who returns late in life to receive honours in his native country , and meets with mortification instead of re- spect , was by him considered as a masterpiece in the ...
... Rambler , Labour and Rest was his favourite ; but Serotinus , the man who returns late in life to receive honours in his native country , and meets with mortification instead of re- spect , was by him considered as a masterpiece in the ...
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... Rambler , came out , there started another com- petitor for fame , in the same form , under the title of The Tatler Revived , which was " born but to die . " Johnson was not very happy in the choice of his title , The Rambler , which ...
... Rambler , came out , there started another com- petitor for fame , in the same form , under the title of The Tatler Revived , which was " born but to die . " Johnson was not very happy in the choice of his title , The Rambler , which ...
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... Rambler was published on Tuesday the 20th of March , 1750 ; and its author was enabled to continue it , without interruption , every Tuesday and Friday , till Saturday the 17th of March , 1752 , on which day it closed . Notwith ...
... Rambler was published on Tuesday the 20th of March , 1750 ; and its author was enabled to continue it , without interruption , every Tuesday and Friday , till Saturday the 17th of March , 1752 , on which day it closed . Notwith ...
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... Rambler was entirely the work of one man , there was of course , such an uniformity in its texture , as very much to exclude the charm of variety ; and the grave , and often solemn cast of thinking , which distinguished it from other ...
... Rambler was entirely the work of one man , there was of course , such an uniformity in its texture , as very much to exclude the charm of variety ; and the grave , and often solemn cast of thinking , which distinguished it from other ...
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