The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... young ones early into the talking world , I have known Mr. Johnson give a good deal of pain by refusing to hear the verses the children could recite , or the songs they could sing ; particularly one friend who told him that his two sons ...
... young ones early into the talking world , I have known Mr. Johnson give a good deal of pain by refusing to hear the verses the children could recite , or the songs they could sing ; particularly one friend who told him that his two sons ...
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... young satirist , Ce petit bon homme ( says he ) n'à point trop d'esprit , mais il ne dira jamais mal de personne . Such are the prognostics formed by men of wit and sense , as these two certainly were , concerning the future cha- racter ...
... young satirist , Ce petit bon homme ( says he ) n'à point trop d'esprit , mais il ne dira jamais mal de personne . Such are the prognostics formed by men of wit and sense , as these two certainly were , concerning the future cha- racter ...
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... young people should have positive , not general rules given for their direction . " My mother ( said he ) was always telling me that I did not behave myself 1 This sentence is quoted by Boswell , Life , vol . iv . , June , 1784 ...
... young people should have positive , not general rules given for their direction . " My mother ( said he ) was always telling me that I did not behave myself 1 This sentence is quoted by Boswell , Life , vol . iv . , June , 1784 ...
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... young fellow who used to come often to the house ; he was about fifteen years old , or less , if I remember right , and had a manner at once sullen and sheepish . " That lad ( says Mr. Johnson ) looks like the son of a schoolmaster ...
... young fellow who used to come often to the house ; he was about fifteen years old , or less , if I remember right , and had a manner at once sullen and sheepish . " That lad ( says Mr. Johnson ) looks like the son of a schoolmaster ...
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... young fellow had a sprig of myrtle given him by a girl he courted , and asked me to write him some verses that he might present her in return . I promised , but forgot ; and when he called for his lines at the time agreed on— -Sit still ...
... young fellow had a sprig of myrtle given him by a girl he courted , and asked me to write him some verses that he might present her in return . I promised , but forgot ; and when he called for his lines at the time agreed on— -Sit still ...
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