Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... , whose death took place in 1806. It is notorious , indeed , that the biographer of Beattie 3 iv . 321 . 5 ii . 262 . 1 Vol . i . 394 . 4 iv . 428 . 2 i . 404 . MR . CROKER'S DATES 5 lived just long enough to SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... , whose death took place in 1806. It is notorious , indeed , that the biographer of Beattie 3 iv . 321 . 5 ii . 262 . 1 Vol . i . 394 . 4 iv . 428 . 2 i . 404 . MR . CROKER'S DATES 5 lived just long enough to SAMUEL JOHNSON.
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... death , Sir Walter Scott lamented that event in the intro- duction to the fourth canto of Marmion . school - girl knows the lines : ' Scarce had lamented Forbes paid The tribute to his Minstrel's shade ; The tale of friendship scarce ...
... death , Sir Walter Scott lamented that event in the intro- duction to the fourth canto of Marmion . school - girl knows the lines : ' Scarce had lamented Forbes paid The tribute to his Minstrel's shade ; The tale of friendship scarce ...
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... death so that one party presided at his trial , and another at his execution : there can be no stronger proof that he was not a political martyr.'1 Now what will our readers think of this writer , when we assure them that this statement ...
... death so that one party presided at his trial , and another at his execution : there can be no stronger proof that he was not a political martyr.'1 Now what will our readers think of this writer , when we assure them that this statement ...
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... death of Johnson.1 1 A defence of this blunder was attempted . That the celebrated chapters in which Gibbon has traced the progress of Mahommedanism were not written in 1776 could not be denied . But it was confidently asserted that his ...
... death of Johnson.1 1 A defence of this blunder was attempted . That the celebrated chapters in which Gibbon has traced the progress of Mahommedanism were not written in 1776 could not be denied . But it was confidently asserted that his ...
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... deaths of a crowd of people , whose names are scarcely known to this generation ? It is not likely that a person who is ignorant of what almost everybody knows can know that of which almost everybody is ignorant . We did not open this ...
... deaths of a crowd of people , whose names are scarcely known to this generation ? It is not likely that a person who is ignorant of what almost everybody knows can know that of which almost everybody is ignorant . We did not open this ...
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