The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... speak more highly . If I have described his manners as they were , I have been careful to show his superiority to the common forins of common life . It is surely no dispraise to an oak that it does not bear jessamine ; and he who should ...
... speak more highly . If I have described his manners as they were , I have been careful to show his superiority to the common forins of common life . It is surely no dispraise to an oak that it does not bear jessamine ; and he who should ...
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... 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 more than most ...
... 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 more than most ...
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... speak it at once ; more noise will by that means be made , and the noise will be sooner over . " He told me the story himself , but I have forgot who the father was . Mr. Johnson's mother was daughter to a gentleman in the country ...
... speak it at once ; more noise will by that means be made , and the noise will be sooner over . " He told me the story himself , but I have forgot who the father was . Mr. Johnson's mother was daughter to a gentleman in the country ...
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... speaking ; no man so steadily refuses preference to himself , or so willingly bestows it on another , as I do ; no body holds so strongly as I do the necessity of ceremony , and the ill effects which follow the breach of it : yet people ...
... speaking ; no man so steadily refuses preference to himself , or so willingly bestows it on another , as I do ; no body holds so strongly as I do the necessity of ceremony , and the ill effects which follow the breach of it : yet people ...
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... speaking sigh'd , Scarce repress'd the starting tear , When the hoary Sage reply'd , Come , my lad , and drink some beer . ' " I could give another comical instance of caricatura imitation . Recollecting some day , when praising these ...
... speaking sigh'd , Scarce repress'd the starting tear , When the hoary Sage reply'd , Come , my lad , and drink some beer . ' " I could give another comical instance of caricatura imitation . Recollecting some day , when praising these ...
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