The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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Page v
... look on his dying ser- vant , Catherine Chambers ; or the glee with which , when almost penniless himself , he hid pennies in the hands of sleeping children in the London streets , lest they should awake break- fastless ! " So with ...
... look on his dying ser- vant , Catherine Chambers ; or the glee with which , when almost penniless himself , he hid pennies in the hands of sleeping children in the London streets , lest they should awake break- fastless ! " So with ...
Page viii
... look most eagerly to Sir Joshua and Miss Reynolds for notices of him . Sir Joshua was , Boswell tells us , Johnson's " dulce decus , with whom he maintained an uninterrupted intimacy to the last hour of his life . " Opportunities for ...
... look most eagerly to Sir Joshua and Miss Reynolds for notices of him . Sir Joshua was , Boswell tells us , Johnson's " dulce decus , with whom he maintained an uninterrupted intimacy to the last hour of his life . " Opportunities for ...
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... look over the collection of pictures made by one whose opportunities of obtaining them we know to have been not unfrequent . I wish not to keep my readers long from such intimacy with the manners of Dr. John- son , or such knowledge of ...
... look over the collection of pictures made by one whose opportunities of obtaining them we know to have been not unfrequent . I wish not to keep my readers long from such intimacy with the manners of Dr. John- son , or such knowledge of ...
Page 15
... looks like the son of a schoolmaster ; which ( added he ) is one of the very worst conditions of childhood : such a boy has no father , or worse than none ; he never can reflect on his parent but the reflection brings to his mind some ...
... looks like the son of a schoolmaster ; which ( added he ) is one of the very worst conditions of childhood : such a boy has no father , or worse than none ; he never can reflect on his parent but the reflection brings to his mind some ...
Page 26
... look silly at his own table . When I told Mr. Johnson the story , " Why , what a monkey was David now ( says he ) , to tell of his own disgrace ! And in the course of that hour's chat he told me , how he used to teize Garrick by ...
... look silly at his own table . When I told Mr. Johnson the story , " Why , what a monkey was David now ( says he ) , to tell of his own disgrace ! And in the course of that hour's chat he told me , how he used to teize Garrick by ...
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