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See, also, Johnson's Lives of the Poets; Nichols's Life of Addison; Scott's Life of Swift; Macaulay's Essay on Addison; and the Spectator and Tatler. CHAPTER
Nichols's very curious and interesting collection of the Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, vol.i. and more lately in a beautiful antiquarian publication, termed KENILWORTH ILLUSTRATED, printed at Chiswick, for Meridew of Coventry and Radcliffe of Birmingham.
The features were certainly softened down, previously to the engraving." Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. ix. p. 718. In the next year, 1772, appeared the first book of the English Garden. The other three followed separately in 1777, 1779, and 1782. It was rather a mode which the taste of the time and country had rendered prevalent, and which the love of novelty is already supplanting.
While Nichols's position in reference to the house was, in principle, equally as correct as the colonel's own, and superior in point of time since impressions, like photographs, are apt to grow dim with age, and Nichols's were of much more recent date the barber's display of sentiment only jarred the colonel's sensibilities and strengthened his desire.
Edition, 1810, it is said that this is rendered improbable by the account given of Colson, by Davies, in his life of Garrick, which was certainly written under Dr. Johnson's inspection, and, what relates to Colson, probably from Johnson's confirmation. Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. v. p. 696. Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. v, p. 15 Ibid. vol. viii. Warburton's Letters, 8vo. Edit. p. 369.
The Lives were soon published in a separate edition; when, for a very few corrections, he was presented with another hundred guineas. Nichols's Lit. Anec. viii. 416. See ante, iii. 111. In Mr. Morrison's Collection of Autographs &c., vol. ii, 'is Johnson's receipt for 100l., from the proprietors of The Lives of the Poets for revising the last edition of that work. It is dated Feb. 19, 1783.
They had races too, that is, the governor's set, and one of my delights was, on the way to the academy, to stop in Third street, above Chestnut, and see the race-horses in the Widow Nichols's stables at the sign of the Indian Queen. But I have left the laughter of the last century echoing among the columns of Andrew Hamilton's home.
"And then..." He measured the length of the knife on Nichols's back twice with elaborate care, breathing through his nostrils. Then he said with a convinced, musing air, "It is true. It would go down into the lungs." "And there are arteries and things," Nichols said. "Yes, yes," the Cuban answered, sheathing the knife and thrusting it into his belt. "With a knife that length it's perfect."
I shall then call you up again; and if you don't tell the whole truth then, I will give you something that'll make you remember Mr. Nichols's melons for many a month to come: go to your seat." Glad enough of the ungracious permission, and answering not a sound, the child crept tremblingly to his bench.
The vegetables are innumerable; for all that grow in Europe, grow there; and many that cannot stand in our winters thrive there. No. The following genealogical memoranda are taken principally, from a note in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. II. p. 17, on his having given the title of a book ascribed to the subject of the foregoing memoir
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