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Excerpt from Johnsoniana: Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL. DThis collection of contemporary opinion is closed by an essay from the pen of Arthur Murphy, whose uninterrupted intimacy with Johnson for thirty years, and keen appreciation of the wit and humour which he thought Johnson's chief characteristic, entitle him to a respectful hearing. But this Essay is in itself most interesting-pit may repeat a few of the current mistakes of th...

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Excerpt from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821Attacks by reviewers-the Peace, - Visit to London - South Wales Mrs. Pennington's troubles Bath again Breach with' Mrs. Pennington, 1804.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-a...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

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Excerpt from Mrs. Piozzi and Isaac Watts: Being Annotations in the Autograph of Mrs. Piozzi, on a Copy of the First Edition of the Philosophical Essays of WattsMy thanks are due to Mr. L. F. Powell, m.a., Of the Taylor Library, for his kindness in reading over these pages and making some suggestions based upon his special knowledge of the subject.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find...

Excerpt from Dr. Johnson's Mrs. Thrale: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. PiozziThe contents of this volume are selected from the second edition, published in two volumes in 1861, of Mr. Hayward's Autobiography, Letters, and Literary Remains of Mrs. Pz'ozzz'. The first of these volumes consists of the editor's biographical and critical essay, and the only portions of it reprinted here are the Marginal Notes and extracts from ...

Excerpt from Glimpses of Italian Society in the Eighteenth Century, From the Journey of Mrs. Piozzi: With an Introduction by the Countess Evelyn Martinengo CesarescoThe bulk of the writers of books of travel in the Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries approached us less nearly in feeling than did the Roman youths of an earlier age, who carried their warmest enthusiasm to the land where they could tread on history. Italy, the Greece of the moder...

Excerpt from Letters to and From the Late Samuel Johnson, LL. D, Vol. 2 of 2: To Which Are Added Some Poems Never Before PrintedLei'ti-zr 1779. Ccxxu. Mrs. Thrale to Dr. Johnfon - anfwer to the foregoing~fiory of Mr. Ho neywood - her apprehenfions of Mr.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. For...

Excerpt from British Synonymy, or an Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation, Vol. 2 of 2: Inscribed, With Sentiments of Gratitude and Respect, to Inch of Her Foreign Friends as Have Made English Literature Their Peculiar StudyForce him to 'hope or fear beyond the limits of fnher probability. All power of fancy {over reafon is a degree of insanity but while this power is fuch as we can controul and reprefs, it is not...

Excerpt from Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 2 of 2The weather was quiet then, and we had no notion of passing such a horrible night, but an hour after dark, a storm came on, which was really dreadful to endure, or even look upon: the blue lightning, whose colour shewed the nature of the original minerals from which she drew her existence, shone round us in a broad expanse f...