The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... person , especially of his piercing eyes 117 His general character Postscript APOPHTHEGMS , SENTIMENTS , OPINIONS , AND OCCASIONAL RE- FLECTIONS , from Hawkins ' edition of Johnson's Works LETTERS FROM AND TO MRS . HILL BOOTHBY 117-120 ...
... person , especially of his piercing eyes 117 His general character Postscript APOPHTHEGMS , SENTIMENTS , OPINIONS , AND OCCASIONAL RE- FLECTIONS , from Hawkins ' edition of Johnson's Works LETTERS FROM AND TO MRS . HILL BOOTHBY 117-120 ...
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... person , he said , and rather below than above the common size . So excellent was her character , and so blameless her life , that when an oppressive neighbour once endeavoured to take from her a little field she possessed , he could ...
... person , he said , and rather below than above the common size . So excellent was her character , and so blameless her life , that when an oppressive neighbour once endeavoured to take from her a little field she possessed , he could ...
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... person who ventured to oppose Mr. Johnson , when he had a mind to shine by exalting his favourite university , and to express his contempt of the Whiggish notions which prevail at Cambridge . He did it once , however , with surprising ...
... person who ventured to oppose Mr. Johnson , when he had a mind to shine by exalting his favourite university , and to express his contempt of the Whiggish notions which prevail at Cambridge . He did it once , however , with surprising ...
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... person who had packed and directed it carefully , but without mentioning whence it came . Mr. Thrale , desirous to know who we were obliged to , asked every friend as they came in , but nobody owned it . " Depend upon it , Sir ( says ...
... person who had packed and directed it carefully , but without mentioning whence it came . Mr. Thrale , desirous to know who we were obliged to , asked every friend as they came in , but nobody owned it . " Depend upon it , Sir ( says ...
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... person who complimented him on its coming out first , mentioning the ill success of the French in a similar attempt , is well known ; and , I trust , has been often recorded : " Why , what would you expect , dear Sir ( said he ) , from ...
... person who complimented him on its coming out first , mentioning the ill success of the French in a similar attempt , is well known ; and , I trust , has been often recorded : " Why , what would you expect , dear Sir ( said he ) , from ...
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