Dr. Johnson: His Life in LettersPrentice-Hall, 1965 - 239 páginas A selection of 246 of Samuel Johnson's letters with interspersed comments designed to reveal the real Johnson. |
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... believe Diseases and Calamities often sent to produce ; but because no man can know how little his perform- ance will answer to his promises , and designs are nothing in human eyes till they are realised by execution . Continue , my ...
... believe Diseases and Calamities often sent to produce ; but because no man can know how little his perform- ance will answer to his promises , and designs are nothing in human eyes till they are realised by execution . Continue , my ...
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... believe that my delay in answering Your letter could proceed only from my unwillingness to destroy any hope that You had form'd . Hope is itself a species of happiness , & perhaps the chief happiness which this World affords , but like ...
... believe that my delay in answering Your letter could proceed only from my unwillingness to destroy any hope that You had form'd . Hope is itself a species of happiness , & perhaps the chief happiness which this World affords , but like ...
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... believe in such apparitions all his life , and con- tinually sought out evidence . “ I never could advance my curiosity to conviction ; but came away at last only willing to believe . " 12 The attempted invasion of the Stuart Pretender ...
... believe in such apparitions all his life , and con- tinually sought out evidence . “ I never could advance my curiosity to conviction ; but came away at last only willing to believe . " 12 The attempted invasion of the Stuart Pretender ...
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affectionate humble servant afraid April Ashbourne August August 24 Baretti Bath Dear Madam believe Bennet Langton Boswell's Tour Brighthelmston Dear Madam compliments danger David Garrick Dear Sir March Dearest Madam death desire Dictionary dined distress Edinburgh Dear Sir edition Edward Cave English expect favour fear friends Garrick give glad guineas happy hear Hebrides Henry Thrale honour hope humble servant Sam Island James Boswell January John Taylor journey June kind Lady letters Levett Lichfield live London Lord Lucy Porter Market Bosworth mind Miss mother ness never night obedient obliged Oxford perhaps pleased pleasure poem pounds publick Queeney received Reynolds Samuel Johnson sent September Sir Joshua Sir July Skie soon Strahan Streatham suffer sure talk tell Tetty thing Thomas Warton thought Thrale Dear Madam tion told Williams wish write wrote yesterday