The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 125
lf, of their wonted fury. My friends never had occasion to vindicate any onecircumstance of my character and conduct; not but thatthe zealots, we may well suppose, would have been gladto invent and propagate any story to my disadvantage,but they could not find any which they thought wouldwear the… … JOHNSON. England has now placed Samuel Johnson at thehead of its most celebrated literati, its purest writers,and most rigid moralists: she justly considers him asthe most judicious critic, the best informed, most inge-nious and fertile writer of the last century. He was born at Litchfield, in…
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