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The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 107
by Samuel Johnson - 1816
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The gallery of portraits: with memoirs ...

Biography - 1835 - 492 pages
...so, and that often. Steele describes his habits of composition. " This was particular in this writer, that, when he had taken his resolution, or made his...the coherence and grammar of what he dictated." Pope says that he wrote with fluency ; but if he had time to correct, did it slowly and cautiously ; but...
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The gallery of portraits: with memoirs ...: Raleigh

Biography - 1836 - 300 pages
...so, and that often. Steele describes his habits of composition. " This was particular in this writer, that, when he had taken his resolution, or made his...the coherence and grammar of what he dictated." Pope says that he wrote with fluency ; but if he had time to correct, did it. slowly and cautiously ; but...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...affectation. What he knew he could easily communicate. " This," says Sleele, was particular in this writer, o case as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated."...
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Distinguished Men of Modern Times ...: Lord Somers to Hunter

Biography - 1838 - 604 pages
...so, and that often. Steele describes his habits of composition. " This was particular in this writer, that, when he had taken his resolution, or made his...the coherence and grammar of what he dictated." Pope says that he wrote with fluency ; but if he had time to correct, did it slowly and cautiously; but...
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Distinguished Men of Modern Times, Volume 3

Henry Malden - 1838 - 528 pages
...so, and that often. Steele describes his habits of composition. " This was particular in this writer, that, when he had taken his resolution, or made his...the coherence and grammar of what he dictated." Pope says that he wrote with fluency; but if he had time to correct, did it slowly and cautiously; but that...
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Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...affectation. What he knew he could easily communicate. "This," says Steele, " was particular in this writer, that, when he had taken his resolution, or made his plan for what he designed to write, be would walk about a room, and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease ;t- any one...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...was |«irticular in this writer, that, when he hud taken his resolution, or runde his plan for wrmt the meanness and servility of hyperbolical adulation, I know not Kngimge wilh as much freedom and case лз any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence...
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The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the ..., Volume 1, Issue 1

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1842 - 456 pages
...phraseology, he usually wrote easily and rapidly. " When he had taken his resolution," Steele has told us, "or made his plan for what he designed to write, he...to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated." (Preface to The Drummer.) Pope told Spcnce, however, that, though he wrote very fluently, " he was...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With and Essay on His Life ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...communicate. " This," says Steele, was particular in this writer, that, when he liad taken his rc-solution, und case as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated."...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...affectation. What he knew he could easily communicate. " This," says Steele, was particular in this writer, because she has so much wit.' ' Why then,' says the King, ' do you not lig with my Lord Pope,J who can be les? suspected of favouring his memory, declares thai he wrote very fluently, but...
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