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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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. MR . CROKER'S DATES 5 lived just long enough to complete the history of his friend . Eight or nine years before the date which Mr. Croker has assigned for Sir William's death , Sir Walter Scott ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. MR . CROKER'S DATES 5 lived just long enough to complete the history of his friend . Eight or nine years before the date which Mr. Croker has assigned for Sir William's death , Sir Walter Scott ...
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... lived have written biography . Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived , and he has beaten them all . He was , if we are to give any credit to his own account or to the united testimony of all who knew him , a man of the ...
... lived have written biography . Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived , and he has beaten them all . He was , if we are to give any credit to his own account or to the united testimony of all who knew him , a man of the ...
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... lived , without the officiousness , the inquisitiveness , the effrontery , the toad - eating , the insensibility to all reproof , he never could have produced so excellent a book . He was a slave , proud of his servitude , a Paul Pry ...
... lived , without the officiousness , the inquisitiveness , the effrontery , the toad - eating , the insensibility to all reproof , he never could have produced so excellent a book . He was a slave , proud of his servitude , a Paul Pry ...
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... lived thirty years earlier , would have been admitted to the sittings of the Kitcat or the Scriblerus club , would have sat in Parliament , and would have been intrusted with embassies to the High Allies ; who , if he had lived in our ...
... lived thirty years earlier , would have been admitted to the sittings of the Kitcat or the Scriblerus club , would have sat in Parliament , and would have been intrusted with embassies to the High Allies ; who , if he had lived in our ...
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