The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... delight in conversation 109 The charm of driving in a coach 110 Johnson a great reader of French literature 112 His close observation of the smallest matters , though his sight so defective 114 Mrs. Piozzi's account of the separation ...
... delight in conversation 109 The charm of driving in a coach 110 Johnson a great reader of French literature 112 His close observation of the smallest matters , though his sight so defective 114 Mrs. Piozzi's account of the separation ...
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... slight performance to the decision of that glorious country , which I have the daily delight to hear applauded in others , as eminently just , generous , and humane . ANECDOTES OF THE LATE 00 SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL.D. TOO 4 PREFACE .
... slight performance to the decision of that glorious country , which I have the daily delight to hear applauded in others , as eminently just , generous , and humane . ANECDOTES OF THE LATE 00 SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL.D. TOO 4 PREFACE .
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... delighted to comply with , should have engaged me to add my little book to the number of those already written on the subject . I used to urge another reason for forbearance , and say , that all the readers would , on this singular ...
... delighted to comply with , should have engaged me to add my little book to the number of those already written on the subject . I used to urge another reason for forbearance , and say , that all the readers would , on this singular ...
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... delight in talking much of his family- " one has ( says he ) so little pleasure in re- citing the anecdotes of beggary . " One day , however , hearing me praise a favourite friend with partial tenderness as well as true esteem ; " Why ...
... delight in talking much of his family- " one has ( says he ) so little pleasure in re- citing the anecdotes of beggary . " One day , however , hearing me praise a favourite friend with partial tenderness as well as true esteem ; " Why ...
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... delight in each other's company , being always rivals for the mother's fondness ; and many of the severe reflec- tions on domestic life in " Rasselas , " took their source from its author's keen recollections of the time passed in his ...
... delight in each other's company , being always rivals for the mother's fondness ; and many of the severe reflec- tions on domestic life in " Rasselas , " took their source from its author's keen recollections of the time passed in his ...
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