The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides James Boswell. ANECDOTES OF THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL . D. DURING THE LAST TWENTY YEARS OF HIS LIFE . BY HESTHER LYNCH PIOZZI . MDCCLXXXVI . I PREFACE . HAVE somewhere heard or read , that VI.
... with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides James Boswell. ANECDOTES OF THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL . D. DURING THE LAST TWENTY YEARS OF HIS LIFE . BY HESTHER LYNCH PIOZZI . MDCCLXXXVI . I PREFACE . HAVE somewhere heard or read , that VI.
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... heard or read , that the Preface before a book , like the portico before a house , should be contrived , so as to catch , but not detain the attention of those who desire admission to the family within , or leave to look over the ...
... heard or read , that the Preface before a book , like the portico before a house , should be contrived , so as to catch , but not detain the attention of those who desire admission to the family within , or leave to look over the ...
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... heard his brother speak with pride and pleasure , mentioning one circumstance , particular enough , that when the company were one day lamenting the badness of the roads , he enquired where they could be , as he travelled the country ...
... heard his brother speak with pride and pleasure , mentioning one circumstance , particular enough , that when the company were one day lamenting the badness of the roads , he enquired where they could be , as he travelled the country ...
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... heard him relate another odd thing of himself too , but it is one which every body has heard as well as I : how , when he was about nine years old , having got the play of " Hamlet " in his hand , and reading it quietly in his father's ...
... heard him relate another odd thing of himself too , but it is one which every body has heard as well as I : how , when he was about nine years old , having got the play of " Hamlet " in his hand , and reading it quietly in his father's ...
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... heard of Heaven and Hell ( he said ) , because when his mother had made out such a description of both places as she thought likely to seize the attention of her infant auditor , who was then in bed with her , she got up , and dressing ...
... heard of Heaven and Hell ( he said ) , because when his mother had made out such a description of both places as she thought likely to seize the attention of her infant auditor , who was then in bed with her , she got up , and dressing ...
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