The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... obliged to begin by chance and continue on how he could , for he had got but little of it by heart ; so fairly trusting to his present powers for immediate supply , he finished by adding astonishment to the applause of all who knew how ...
... obliged to begin by chance and continue on how he could , for he had got but little of it by heart ; so fairly trusting to his present powers for immediate supply , he finished by adding astonishment to the applause of all who knew how ...
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... obliged to , asked every friend as they came in , but nobody owned it . " Depend upon it , Sir ( says Johnson ) , it was sent by Junius . " The " False Alarm , " his first and favourite pamphlet , was written at our house between eight ...
... obliged to , asked every friend as they came in , but nobody owned it . " Depend upon it , Sir ( says Johnson ) , it was sent by Junius . " The " False Alarm , " his first and favourite pamphlet , was written at our house between eight ...
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... obliged to say to - morrow what he had said yesterday ; and even Garrick , who ought to have been better acquainted with his tricks , professed himself mortified , that one time when he was extolling Dryden in a rapture that I suppose ...
... obliged to say to - morrow what he had said yesterday ; and even Garrick , who ought to have been better acquainted with his tricks , professed himself mortified , that one time when he was extolling Dryden in a rapture that I suppose ...
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... obliged to repeat expres- sions of severity , and sentences of contempt ? Let me at least soften them a little , by saying , that he did not hate the persons he treated with roughness , or despise them whom he drove from him by apparent ...
... obliged to repeat expres- sions of severity , and sentences of contempt ? Let me at least soften them a little , by saying , that he did not hate the persons he treated with roughness , or despise them whom he drove from him by apparent ...
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... obliged me to resign his translation of the song beginning , Busy , curious , thirsty fly , for him to give Mr. Langton , with a promise not to retain a copy . I concluded he knew why , so never enquired the reason . He had the greatest ...
... obliged me to resign his translation of the song beginning , Busy , curious , thirsty fly , for him to give Mr. Langton , with a promise not to retain a copy . I concluded he knew why , so never enquired the reason . He had the greatest ...
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