The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 7J. Murray, 1839 |
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... play more freely , and partly from that inclination to activity which will ani- mate at times the most inert and sluggish mortal , took a long pole which was lying on a bank , and pushed down several parcels of this wreck with painful ...
... play more freely , and partly from that inclination to activity which will ani- mate at times the most inert and sluggish mortal , took a long pole which was lying on a bank , and pushed down several parcels of this wreck with painful ...
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... play was wrong in the concoction . Now , what is the concoction of a play ! " ( Here Garrick started , and twisted him- self , and seemed sorely vexed ; for Johnson told me , he believed the story was true . ) GARRIck . “ I — I — I ...
... play was wrong in the concoction . Now , what is the concoction of a play ! " ( Here Garrick started , and twisted him- self , and seemed sorely vexed ; for Johnson told me , he believed the story was true . ) GARRIck . “ I — I — I ...
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... play to the press , " but in a long , contentious letter says , that he will " forgive Hawkins's publishing an appeal on the rejection of his plays , if he will publish the plays themselves ; " and this was so far from silencing Hawkins ...
... play to the press , " but in a long , contentious letter says , that he will " forgive Hawkins's publishing an appeal on the rejection of his plays , if he will publish the plays themselves ; " and this was so far from silencing Hawkins ...
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