The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 3Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 - Authors, English |
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... give up , though he had the wrong side ; and in short , both kept the field . Next morning , when they met in the breakfasting - room , Dr. Johnson accosted Mr. Morgann thus : ' Sir , I have been thinking on our dispute last night ...
... give up , though he had the wrong side ; and in short , both kept the field . Next morning , when they met in the breakfasting - room , Dr. Johnson accosted Mr. Morgann thus : ' Sir , I have been thinking on our dispute last night ...
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... give to the world a just and elegant compliment thus paid to his Lordship by Johnson . CHARADE . My first shuts out thieves from your house or your room , My second expresses a Syrian perfume . My whole is a man in whose converse is ...
... give to the world a just and elegant compliment thus paid to his Lordship by Johnson . CHARADE . My first shuts out thieves from your house or your room , My second expresses a Syrian perfume . My whole is a man in whose converse is ...
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... give man the faculty of speech ; to inform him that he may have speech ; which I think he could no more find out without inspiration , than cows or hogs would think of such a faculty . " WALKER . " Do you think , Sir , JOHNSON . that ...
... give man the faculty of speech ; to inform him that he may have speech ; which I think he could no more find out without inspiration , than cows or hogs would think of such a faculty . " WALKER . " Do you think , Sir , JOHNSON . that ...
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... give me so much pleasure , except the fourth book . The Eclogues I have almost all by heart . I do not think the story of the Æneid interesting . I like the story of the Odyssey much better ; and this not on account of the wonderful ...
... give me so much pleasure , except the fourth book . The Eclogues I have almost all by heart . I do not think the story of the Æneid interesting . I like the story of the Odyssey much better ; and this not on account of the wonderful ...
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... give the tree a jerk upon a death - bed , to make it lye favourably , is not well foundel . I asked him what works of Richard Baxter's I should read . He said , " Read any of them ; they are all good . " He said , " Get as much force of ...
... give the tree a jerk upon a death - bed , to make it lye favourably , is not well foundel . I asked him what works of Richard Baxter's I should read . He said , " Read any of them ; they are all good . " He said , " Get as much force of ...
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