The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... true if it had been given by Mrs. Thrale instead of Mrs. Piozzi , who writes with something of the bitterness arising from consciousness of wrongdoing . Lord Macaulay has described Mrs. Thrale , " at the height of her prosperity and ...
... true if it had been given by Mrs. Thrale instead of Mrs. Piozzi , who writes with something of the bitterness arising from consciousness of wrongdoing . Lord Macaulay has described Mrs. Thrale , " at the height of her prosperity and ...
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... true esteem ; " Why do you like that man's acquaintance so ? " said he . " Because , ” replied I , " he is open and confiding , and tells me stories of his uncles and cousins ; I love the light parts of a solid character . " " Nay , if ...
... true esteem ; " Why do you like that man's acquaintance so ? " said he . " Because , ” replied I , " he is open and confiding , and tells me stories of his uncles and cousins ; I love the light parts of a solid character . " " Nay , if ...
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... true ( said he ) ; but that is no reason for supposing Congreve is to stand in competition with Shakespeare : these fellows know not how to blame , nor how to commend . " I forced him one day , in a similar humour , to prefer Young's ...
... true ( said he ) ; but that is no reason for supposing Congreve is to stand in competition with Shakespeare : these fellows know not how to blame , nor how to commend . " I forced him one day , in a similar humour , to prefer Young's ...
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... true gratitude of a wit ridiculed the master of the house before I had left it an hour , " has been falsely printed in many papers since his death . I wrote it down from his own lips one evening in August 1772 , not neglecting the ...
... true gratitude of a wit ridiculed the master of the house before I had left it an hour , " has been falsely printed in many papers since his death . I wrote it down from his own lips one evening in August 1772 , not neglecting the ...
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... true , only because it is so . I hope that the reason our hearts rebelled a little against his severity , was chiefly because it came from a living mouth . - Books were invented to take off the odium of immediate superiority , and ...
... true , only because it is so . I hope that the reason our hearts rebelled a little against his severity , was chiefly because it came from a living mouth . - Books were invented to take off the odium of immediate superiority , and ...
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