The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1925 |
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Page viii
... passing home . This is a cottage at Hampstead , which , under the name of Priory Lodge , was still said to exist in an enlarged and altered form , as late as May , 1899. Johnson himself describes it as a " small house beyond the church ...
... passing home . This is a cottage at Hampstead , which , under the name of Priory Lodge , was still said to exist in an enlarged and altered form , as late as May , 1899. Johnson himself describes it as a " small house beyond the church ...
Page xviii
... passed . " 99 Booksellers and printers , however , whether coach - keepers or not , played but a small part in the ever growing list of the Doctor's acquaintances , which included not a few persons of quality besides Lord Orrery and ...
... passed . " 99 Booksellers and printers , however , whether coach - keepers or not , played but a small part in the ever growing list of the Doctor's acquaintances , which included not a few persons of quality besides Lord Orrery and ...
Page xx
... passed away in 1863 ; and nothing now remains in the neigh- bourhood to call up the memory of the pleasant white mansion with its plantations and park , where cattle , dogs and poultry ran " freely about without annoying each other ...
... passed away in 1863 ; and nothing now remains in the neigh- bourhood to call up the memory of the pleasant white mansion with its plantations and park , where cattle , dogs and poultry ran " freely about without annoying each other ...
Page xxiv
... passed - away eighteenth century tavern ; and the present meeting - place of the Johnson Club . Johnson's and Goldsmith's seats are still pointed out to the trustful enquirer ; and Cyrus Redding , in his Fifty Years ' Recollections ...
... passed - away eighteenth century tavern ; and the present meeting - place of the Johnson Club . Johnson's and Goldsmith's seats are still pointed out to the trustful enquirer ; and Cyrus Redding , in his Fifty Years ' Recollections ...
Page xxxiii
... to mention , that upon many Occasions I differed from him , and followed my own judgement . I regret exceedingly that I was deprived of the benefit of his revision , when not more ، xxxiii than one half of the book had passed through the.
... to mention , that upon many Occasions I differed from him , and followed my own judgement . I regret exceedingly that I was deprived of the benefit of his revision , when not more ، xxxiii than one half of the book had passed through the.
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