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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ... - Page 46
by Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 394 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...World, that two papers, in which ray Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by vour Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour which,...your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish, that I might boast myself...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D: Including A Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished,...your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be BO distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little...your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...proprietor of the ' World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished...your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself...
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The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin ...

William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honor which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or...your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself...
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