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" I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his biographers: every house in which he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence. "
Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle - Page 258
1839
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Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew-close, by West Smithfield. I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence.54 The King, with lenity of which the world has had perhaps no other example,...
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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...convenient to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew-close, by West Smithfield. I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence.* The king, with lenity of which the world has had perhaps no other example,...
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The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...to seek some shelter, and hid himself for a time in Bartholomew-close, by West Smithfield. ' . .'"IT I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...to this great man by his biographers: every house m which he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that...
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THE WORKS OF WILLIAM COWPER HIS LIFE, LETTERS, AND POEMS

1860 - 784 pages
...called ' Ikon Ilasilike,' fee." Coiepci — " A strange proof of your proposition !" Johnson — " I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honored by his presence." Cticuer — " They have all paid him more than vou." Johnson — " U1 he...
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Selections from the prose writings of John Milton, ed. with memoir, notes ...

John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...his own day, and only became famous after Addison's eulogium. " I cannot but remark," says Johnson, " a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to...mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming places that he honoured with his presence." This is the more striking from the fact that he seldom...
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The Christian Ambassador, Volumes 3-4

1865 - 782 pages
...Johnson says : — " I cannot but remark a kind of respect paid to this great man, perhaps unconsciously, by his biographers ; every house in which he resided...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence." Neither national convulsions nor domestic unhappiness conld repress the...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with A journal of a tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...this gloom of solitude ? ' You have been agreeably mistaken." In his Life of Milton he observes, " I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence." I had, before I read this observation, been desirous of shewing that respect...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with The journal of a tour ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1884 - 626 pages
...this gloom of solitude ?' You have been agreeably mistaken." In his life of Milton, he observes, " I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence." I had, before I read this observation, been desirous of showing that respect...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 pages
...in this gloom of solitude4?" You have been agreeably mistaken.' In his Life of Milton* he observes, 'I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously,...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence." I had, before I read this observation, been desirous of shewing that respect...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ... Comprising a Series of His Epistolary ...

James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...solitude?' You have been agreeably mistaken." In his life of Milton, he observes, " I cann :ry house m which he resided is historically mentioned, as if...were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence." I had. before I read this observation, been desirous of showing that respect...
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