The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... manners , a singularly amiable temper , and a loving heart . " True words , to their fullest extent , excepting only ... manner as almost any of his very numerous acquaintance . " Tyers himself modestly claims to have " worked his little ...
... manners , a singularly amiable temper , and a loving heart . " True words , to their fullest extent , excepting only ... manner as almost any of his very numerous acquaintance . " Tyers himself modestly claims to have " worked his little ...
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... manners of Dr. John- son , or such knowledge of his sentiments as these pages can convey . To urge my distance from England as an excuse for the book's being ill written , would be ridiculous ; it might indeed serve as a just reason for ...
... manners of Dr. John- son , or such knowledge of his sentiments as these pages can convey . To urge my distance from England as an excuse for the book's being ill written , would be ridiculous ; it might indeed serve as a just reason for ...
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... manner of gesticulating , much blamed or wondered at the good lady's solicitude concern- ing her son's behaviour . Though he was attentive to the peace of children in general , no man had a stronger contempt than he for such parents as ...
... manner of gesticulating , much blamed or wondered at the good lady's solicitude concern- ing her son's behaviour . Though he was attentive to the peace of children in general , no man had a stronger contempt than he for such parents as ...
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... manner at once sullen and sheepish . " That lad ( says Mr. Johnson ) 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 ...
... manner at once sullen and sheepish . " That lad ( says Mr. Johnson ) 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 ...
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... manners . The character of Prospero in the fourth volume , Garrick took to be his ; and I have heard the author say , that he never forgave the offence . Sophron was likewise a picture drawn from reality ; and by Gelidus the philosopher ...
... manners . The character of Prospero in the fourth volume , Garrick took to be his ; and I have heard the author say , that he never forgave the offence . Sophron was likewise a picture drawn from reality ; and by Gelidus the philosopher ...
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