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... better buy a porter's behaviour ; the Author , conscious of his own knot . " Johnson used to tell this anecdote to merit , towering in idea above all competition , Mr. Nichols ; but he said , " Wilcox was one of versed in scholastic ...
... better buy a porter's behaviour ; the Author , conscious of his own knot . " Johnson used to tell this anecdote to merit , towering in idea above all competition , Mr. Nichols ; but he said , " Wilcox was one of versed in scholastic ...
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... better history of Grub - street than any man liv- in that language , and a professed admirer of ing . His house was filled with a succession of Boileau and La Bruyere , did not understand its visitors till four or five in the evening ...
... better history of Grub - street than any man liv- in that language , and a professed admirer of ing . His house was filled with a succession of Boileau and La Bruyere , did not understand its visitors till four or five in the evening ...
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... better , I should not be willing ; if street , near the Temple . To answer the malig- much worse , I should not be able to migrate . nant remarks of Sir John Hawkins on this sub- Your Lordship was first solicited without my ject , were ...
... better , I should not be willing ; if street , near the Temple . To answer the malig- much worse , I should not be able to migrate . nant remarks of Sir John Hawkins on this sub- Your Lordship was first solicited without my ject , were ...
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... better than a vulgar error . visions , which represent an event actually pass- This being reported to Johnson , " Nay , " said ing at a distance , or likely to happen at a future he , “ do not let him be thankful , for he was right ...
... better than a vulgar error . visions , which represent an event actually pass- This being reported to Johnson , " Nay , " said ing at a distance , or likely to happen at a future he , “ do not let him be thankful , for he was right ...
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... better things . He , who reads the heads of the chapters will find , that it is not a course of adventures that invites him forward , but a discussion of interesting questions ; Re- flections on Human life , the History of Imlac , the ...
... better things . He , who reads the heads of the chapters will find , that it is not a course of adventures that invites him forward , but a discussion of interesting questions ; Re- flections on Human life , the History of Imlac , the ...
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